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"A Meeting of the Grandfathers," by Lyle Miller. Painted for the Minnesota History Center's exhibit, "The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862."
“The Battle of Birch Coulee,” Lithograph by Paul G. Biersach, 1912.
Public execution of 38 Dakota Indians at Mankato, by W. H. Childs, 1862.
Sakpedan (Little Six) and Wakanozhanzhan (Medicine Bottle) at Fort Snelling, by Joel Emmons Whitney, 1864.
President Abraham Lincoln.
Col. Henry H. Sibley, pictured in his army uniform in 1862, Engraving by J. C. Buttre.
Little Crow, photograph by Joel Emmons Whitney, 1862.
Taoyateduta's (Little Crow) son, Wowinape.
Little Crow’s wife and children at Fort Snelling, ca. 1863.
Snana, a 23-year-old Dakota woman whose seven-year-old daughter dies just before the war breaks out, forms a lifelong bond with Mary Schwandt, a 14-year-old German American, whose parents and five siblings are killed during the war. Snana frees Mary from captivity and protects her during the war by hiding her and dressing her in Indian clothing.
The State of Minnesota awards this $500 bounty check to Nathan Lamson for killing Taoyateduta.
Settlers escaping from the fighting, Aug. 21, 1862.
President Abraham Lincoln writes by hand the list of 39 Dakota men to be hanged at Mankato. One man, Tatemina, was reprieved at the last minute.
Alexander Ramsey, 1862.
"The Treaty of Traverse des Sioux," by Frank Blackwell Mayer, 1885.
Internment camp at Fort Snelling. Photographer unknown.
“Attack on New Ulm,” by Anton Gag, 1904.
“The whole system is defective & must be revised or, your red children, as they call themselves, will continue to be wronged & outraged & the just vengeance of heaven continue to be poured out & visited upon this nation for its abuses & cruelty to the I n d i a n .” — George E. H. Day, report to President Abraham Lincoln, early 1862. Image of letter courtesy of the Library of Congress.