“We all ride for the same reason: to remember the grandfathers that were executed on Dec. 26, 1862 ... the Dakota at the Battle of Wood Lake in Yellow Medicine County. The uprising led ...

Thomas D. Phillips (MMgmt’71) co-authored the book Fire in the North: The Minnesota Uprising and the Sioux War in Dakota Territory. It recounts the Dakota War of 1862, also known as the Sioux Uprising ...

The first attack, considered the act that set off the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, occurred Aug. 17, 1862, when four Dakota warriors killed five whites in Acton Township. Dakota warriors from Shakopee ...

Pp. xvi, 208. Illus., maps, append., index. $18.99. ISBN: 0805093648. Tracing Sioux history from 1862 to the present, the author begins with the 1862 uprising of the Minnesota Santee (cousins to the ...