Founders Event + Famous Trials: The Dakota Uprising Trials and Mass Execution

Friday, June 13, 2025
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Our 30th Anniversary Celebration and Member Appreciation Event - Includes bonus famous trials presentation:

In August 1862, four starving Dakota Santee warriors attacked a family in Meeker County Minnesota. Frustrated over broken treaties, land encroachments and enduring hardship, Little Crow and other Dakota leaders decided to attack the Lower Sioux Agency and so began a six-week war with white settlers and Federal troops. After the uprising was put down, a military commission tried 392 Dakota. 303 were sentenced to hang. Intervention from Abraham Lincoln commuted 265. The result was the largest mass execution in United States history at Mankato MN on December 26, 1862.