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WhiskeyGrinder

(23,830 posts)
Wed Jan 10, 2024, 02:50 PM Jan 2024

Minnesota to permanently close Upper Sioux Agency State Park in February

https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-to-permanently-close-upper-sioux-agency-state-park-in-february/600333812/

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Minnesota's Upper Sioux Agency State Park will permanently close to the public on Feb. 16, as the state gets ready to transfer the land to the nearby tribal community.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced Wednesday that it will turn over the park, built on a notorious site of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, to the Upper Sioux Community by mid-March, completing the transfer ordered by lawmakers last year.

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The 1,300-acre park of rolling hills, bent oak trees and wild prairie flowers opened in the 1960s where the Yellow Medicine and Minnesota rivers meet, near Granite Falls. It has a few dozen campsites, but is primarily used for day trips, with winding horseback riding trails and short footpaths.

It's the site of the former Upper Sioux Agency, a government-run campus of employee housing, warehouses and a manual labor school. In the early 1860s, the agency was responsible for paying the band of Dakota the money, food and supplies owed to them under the treaties that gave the United States much of what is now Minnesota.
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Minnesota to permanently close Upper Sioux Agency State Park in February (Original Post) WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2024 OP
Good! 2naSalit Jan 2024 #1
The treaty took Minnesota. It wasn't given. Voltaire2 Jan 2024 #2

Voltaire2

(14,701 posts)
2. The treaty took Minnesota. It wasn't given.
Wed Jan 10, 2024, 03:35 PM
Jan 2024

We routinely erase the colonization and genocide of indigenous people and the theft of their lands using language like “under the treaties that gave”, as if somehow the treaty had agency rather than the government and its armed forces.

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