December 2012 marked the 150th anniversary of the final violent encounter of the Dakota War of 1862, which ended with the largest mass execution in U.S. history and the Dakota people expelled from ...

a mass hanging in Mankato in the aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. “Today we ride for the ones who we lost,” said Jimmy Hallum, who had led a group known as the Dakota Exiles Ride from ...

Jim Hallum grew up on the Santee Sioux Reservation in Nebraska not knowing anything about the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. Now, 162 years later, he and 30 others are on a nearly 300-mile ride from the ...

In recognition of the 150th anniversary of the U.S.-Dakota War, Governor Mark Dayton has declared Friday a Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation. Five settlers in Meeker County were killed by a group ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Sioux Falls had a population of just 40 people in the mid 1800s. In 1857, the Western Land Company sent a group to Dakota Territory to found a town near the falls of ...

During the Dakota War of 1862, the town became a ‘no-man’s land,’ and it wasn’t until after the conflict that the population started to grow. Phillips left town to practice medicine in Dubuque, Iowa.