State Historical Museum of Iowa

Inkpaduta in Iowa: Dakota Decline, Dispossession and Erasure

1 hour

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600 E. Locust Ave.

Des Moines

,

IA

50319

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In this session, Kevin Mason, Waldorf University professor, presents about Iowa's changing physical environment during the 1850s and how northwest Iowa's worst winter on record (1856-1857) escalated tensions between settlers near Spirit Lake and Indigenous peoples led by Inkpaduta.

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