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This Day in Minnesota History

January 4, 1863

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In response to a federal law mandating that all Dakota be removed from the state as punishment for the US–Dakota War of 1862, 1,310 captives at Fort Snelling, mostly women and children, are loaded onto two steamboats to be transported to a reservation on Crow Creek in southeastern Dakota Territory. Soon after arriving at the reservation, many would die of disease and hunger.

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