Articles tagged with #Fort Snelling

Fort Snelling, a former Army post in Minnesota, has a dark history of violence and mistreatment of Native Americans. In the mid-19th century, it served as a concentration camp for thousands of Dakota and Ojibwe people who were forcibly relocated from their ancestral lands to reservations further wes...

Fort Snelling, located in St. Paul, Minnesota, has a dark history as the site of a 19th-century concentration camp where thousands of Native Americans were forcibly assimilated into white culture. In 2023, ICE began detaining members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe at the site, sparking widespread critici...