Fort Snelling at Bdote : a brief history, newly annotated /
For millennia, the place where the Minnesota River joins the Mississippi has been a crossroads, a place of strategic power. In the 1820s, the newly arriving U.S. troops built Fort Snelling on the bluff above the rivers. That limestone fortress has stood for almost two hundred years as both an actor...
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| Language: | English |
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St. Paul :
Minnesota Historical Society Press,
[2020]
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| Edition: | Newly annotated edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The power of place
- Oceti Sakowin and Bdote Mni Sota
- People on the land
- The Dakota way of life
- The arrival of the French
- The British take over the fur trade
- Enter the United States
- The United States come to Bdote
- African Americans at Fort Snelling
- Enslaved African Americans and the fight for freedom
- Mendota and the fur trade
- The treaties of 1837
- Territorial transition
- The treaties of 1851
- The sale of Fort Snelling
- Fort Snelling during the American Civil War
- The US
- Dakota War of 1862
- The Fort Snelling concentration camp
- Removal of the Dakota, the "Pilgrims," and the punitive expeditions
- Department of Dakota
- Buffalo soldiers
- Wars of imperialism
- The Battle of Sugar Point
- Fort Snelling during World War I
- The country club of the army
- Fort Snelling during World War II
- Decommissioning of Fort Snelling
- The sacred sites at Bdote
- The creation of Historic Fort Snelling
- Genocide, resilience, and reclamation of Bdote
- Historic Fort Snelling in the twenty-first century
- Fort Snelling at Bdote
- For further reading
- Author's note.