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Mankato today is a city of 37,000 south of Minneapolis, notable for
its state university campus, which has 15,000 students. In Mankato, which
has heretofore neglected its bloody past, a new historical marker is being
erected at the site of the scaffold, at a place now called Reconciliation
Park. The marker, a fiberglass scroll, displays the names of the thirty-eight
Dakota who were executed.
The Minnesota History Center in St. Paul is currently featuring an
exhibit titled “Minnesota Tragedy: The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862.” “You
can’t turn your head from what is not pretty in history,” said Stephen
Elliott, who became the director of the Minnesota Historical Society last
May after twenty-eight years at Colonial Williamsburg. He told the
Minneapolis Star Tribune, “Whatever we do, it’s not going to somehow
heal things or settle it.” The impressive state-of-the-art exhibit includes the
views of both white settlers and Indians, voices from the past as well as
the present. “Visitors are encouraged to make up their own minds about
what happened and why,” the official guide declares. The website and
online video are particularly impressive.
The mass execution of the Dakota Indians isn’t the only fact missed
in the Lincoln biopic. Check out Jon Wiener on “The Trouble with Steven
Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln.’”
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