Little War on the Prairie (Seeing White, Part 5)
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The Dakota War in Minnesota
The Dakota have lived in Minnesota for at least a thousand years. In the mid-1800s white people started flooding in and they wanted land. The country's leaders going back to the founders talked bluntly about prying land out of Indian hands. A leading negotiator for the whites during these treaty deals was a man named Henry Chibli, who later became its first governor.
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