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A council of Dakota leaders travel to Washington DC to discuss the conditions of their treaties. There they learn that their treaty had been changed, and that they would be forced to give up half their land in Minnesota.
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South fires on Fort Sumter, beginning Civil War
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Trader Andrew Myrick insulted many Dakota when he told them that they could "eat grass" if they are hungry. In the second day of the Dakota War, he was killed by Dakota warriors, who stuffed his mouth full of grass.
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38 Dakota men were excecuted in Mankato, MN in the largets mass execution in US history.