Commemorative site by the Minnesota Historical Society that introduces a wide range of initiatives to encourage discussion and reflection about the war. This website shares historical background, a timeline of events, public programs, books, links to photos, documents and artifacts relating to the war, and also resources for researching family history.
Recommended by Leon Rodrigues
In researching her family history, Diane Wilson wrote an exquisite counterpoint of memoir and carefully researched fiction resulting in a remarkable narrative that ties modern Minnesotans to the trauma of the Dakota War.
Through the process she connected with her Dakota ancestry and U.S. Dakota war of 1862 after growing up in the suburbs of Minneapolis in 1950s.
Suggested by Leon Rodrigues.
Collection of stories about the War from Minnesota Public Radio spanning February 2012 to August 2012.
August 22, 2012 article on pilot project on using e-textbooks. Cornell, Indiana, Minnesota, Virginia, and Wisconsin were the participants with 21 more joining this year.
War memorials in New Ulm, MN related to the US Dakota War in 1962