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One hundred fifty years ago, about 80 miles southeast of Litchfield in Mankato, Minn., a tragedy unfolded. The war that started with a few scattered attacks across Meeker County in August 1862, ...
Home sweet home: Rifle of Chief Sakpe makes it way back to SMSC
After more than a century of changing hands, the rifle of Mdewakanton Dakota leader Chief Sakpe II has found its final home. On Nov. 16. the Scott County Historical Society donated Sakpe’s ...