Dakota Prisoner of War Letters: Dakota Kaskapi Okicize Wowapi romance and that of the non-Native

and that of the non-Native oilmen

restoring a way of life that regards our beloved children as wakan

A god will return

one who achieved a once-unfathomable celebrity while suffering the harsh injustices of a racially intolerant world

With increasing speed

Dakota Prisoner of War Letters: Dakota Kaskapi Okicize Wowapi romance and that of the non-NativeIn April 1863after the Dakota War of 1862, after the hanging of thirty eight Dakota men in the largest mass execution in U. S. history some 270 Dakota men were moved from Mankato, Minnesota, to a prison at Camp McClellan in Davenport, Iowa. Separated from their wives, children, and elder relatives, with inadequate shelter, they lived there for three long, wretched years. More than 120 men died. Desperate to connect with their families, many of these