The Red Wing Human Rights Commission is supportive of the Prairie Island Indian Community’s efforts to have a noose used in a 1862 mass hanging returned to the Dakota people.
(Mankato, MN) A Native American tribe is asking the Minnesota Historical Society to return an artifact used in a mass execution in the 1800s. The Prairie Island Indian Community has filed a claim through its Historic Preservation Office to have the "Mankato Hanging Rope" returned to the tribe. The noose was used to hang 38 Dakota men in Mankato in 1862 following the
(Minneapolis, MN) A Native American tribe is asking the Minnesota Historical Society to return an artifact reportedly used in a mass execution in the 1800s. The Prairie Island Indian Community has
MANKATO — Ownership of a noose believed to have been used in the mass hanging of 38 Dakota men in Mankato is being considered for transfer to the Prairie Island