"This volume brings together an invaluable collection of vivid eyewitness Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 and its aftermath.
Speaking from a variety of viewpoints and enmeshed in complex webs of allegiances to Indian, white, and mixed-blood kin, these witnesses testify not only to the terrible casualties they all suffered, but also to the ways in which the events of.
Of greatest interest is the fact that all the narratives assembled here come from Dakota mixed-bloods and full-bloods. "This volume brings together an invaluable collection of vivid eyewitness Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 and its aftermath