Two cultures met in Minnesota-one striving to maintain its homeland and traditions, another trying to create a life of freedom, prosperity, and abundance.
What if the defeated became the victors? What would that mean for the world today and how would that illuminate the wrongs of the past?.
The United States is an abundant, beautiful land filled with wealth and opportunity, but its History is scarred by inequity and loss.
Acting as individuals, striving to protect ourselves and our families, it\'s impossible to understand our role and impact in the much larger march of time.
In Reclaiming Mni Sota, the true and lasting results of History are challenged.
Once thought impenetrable, the fort and its small group of volunteer militia fights to hang on when a new enemy arrives from the West.
Spurred by early victories over Fort Ridgley and New Ulm, the Dakota-Ojibwe Alliance heads north to Fort Snelling, the beacon of American strength in the region.
Fueled by years of mistreatment and seeing the opportunity provided by the War with the South, Dakota spokesman Little Crow and Ojibwe leader Bagone-giizhig, join forces in an effort to reclaim their Native lands.
Though they can\'t stop the war, maybe they can help each other.
But when war breaks out, and their cultures collide, so do their individual paths.
War was in their future and it was inevitable.
Seeking their own solutions, neither Waabi or Samuel could see the collision course their paths had been set upon by a world in conflict.
Seeing his way of life crumbling around him, WaabiskiMakwa leaves his home to mourn his father and seek a new way, one that includes his lost-love, Agnes. government officials.
WaabiskiMakwa was still a boy in 1850 when his father perished at Sandy Lake because of the negligence of U.
S.
Devastated by the loss of his father at the hands of Indians and seeking to protect his brother, Samuel joins the Union army believing he\'d be safe on the frontier.
But life is harder and more dangerous than he expected.
Samuel Copeland was just a teenager in 1859 when he and his family left Vermont for the promise of a new life in Minnesota.
Two cultures met in Minnesota-one striving to maintain its homeland and traditions, another trying to create a life of freedom, prosperity, and abundance
