200 YEARS OF PEACE PRECEDED WAR

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By Amanda DyslinFree Press Staff Writer
AUGUST 17 2012
ST PETER — It wasn’t as if the Dakota elders were signing the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux with strangers they didn’t trust in 1851.
And Ben Leonard, executive director of the Nicollet County Historical Society, said the Dakota had good reason to trust the government to honor its end of the bargain.
The Dakota had been working and living beside white settlers for 200 years. Leaders, such as Henry Sibley and Philander Prescott, had married Dakota women. Dakota had established “kinship ties” with white settlers, Leonard said.
“Kinship ties were really important to the Dakota. It goes beyond trust,” Leonard said.




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