The Dakota prisoner of war letters = Dakota Kaŝkapi Okicize Wowapi / Clifford Canku and Michael Simon ; introduction and afterword by John Peacock.

"In April 1863--after 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 relative...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Canku, Clifford
Language:English
Published: St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Dakota people > Wars, 1862-1865 > Personal narratives.
Dakota people > Iowa > Davenport Region > Correspondence.
Indigenous prisoners > Iowa > Davenport Region > Correspondence.
Prisoners of war > Iowa > Davenport Region > Correspondence.
Dakota language > Translating into English.
Letters.
Genre:
Personal narratives.
Correspondence.
Letters.
Physical Description:xxx, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Variant Title:
Dakota Kaŝkapi Okicize Wowapi. [Parallel title]
Format: Book

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