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Location of Mass Graves Revealed

Breaking News: Location of Mass Graves of Residential School Children Revealed for the First Time; Independent Tribunal Established Squamish Nation Territory (“Vancouver, Canada”) Thursday, April

All about the Upper Sioux Tribe

The Reservation tribal headquarters is located five miles south of Granite Falls, Minnesota, on the Minnesota River in Yellow Medicine County. The reservation is 115

Minneapolis History is really Sioux history Mendota Mdewakanton

Minneapolis History is really Sioux history.

Minneapolis history before the middle of the 19th Century is really the history of the Dakota (Sioux) American Indians.

It is believed that the Dakota people lived and flourished in the area to be known as Minneapolis before Daniel Greysolon, Sieur Du Luth (known as Duluth), and Father Louis Hennepin visited the area in the 1680s. The Dakota bands were well established in the culture of hunting and gathering and were skilled in horsemanship. The other dominant Indian Nation in the area was the Ojibwe. Intertribal fighting between the Ojibwe and the Dakota had a long history. By 1800, many Dakota Mdewakanton had settled along the lower Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers below the sacred site of the Falls of St. Anthony.

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