In August 1862 the worst Massacre in U.
S.
More than five hundred Indians, many of them women and children, perished in the afte.
But the devastation was not all on one side.
When it was over, between six and seven hundred white settlers had been murdered in their homes, and thirty to forty thousand had fled the frontier of Minnesota. History unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what has come to be known as the Dakota War, the Most Violent Ethnic Conflict ever to roil the nation.
In August 1862 the worst Massacre in U.
S