The Dakota Uprising Hundreds died and were put into concentration camps in the act of protecting the land that was theirs. This talks about the Americans taking the Native Americans' land and starting a war. The Dakota War stripped Natives of their land and was the beginning of reservations where the Natives were put after their land was stolen. The settlers wanted to expand and take the land from the Native Americans. More settlers came to mainland America and with all these new people they needed more space and they took it from the Natives (“Reconnecting Roots”). The settlers came and decided they deserved the land more than the Natives. The Settlers believed that because they were different, they deserved the land more than the Native Americans.…show more content… This war was a short but deadly one for the Natives, hundreds died, and when the U.S. Government sent the Natives were sent to reservations away from the land that was once theirs. The U.S. was not joking around when it came to getting land from the Natives. They were ruthless. Genocidal efforts were very present in this war[“The US-Dakota War of 1862.”].The U.S. government decided to kill some of the Natives who were not fighting because they were different from them. Genocide is when you kill a specific group of people based on their race and that was happening in this short war (“The US-Dakota War of 1862.” The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, Minnesota Historical Society). The U.S. even removed the non-militant groups of Dakota that were just living everyday life. When they were moving the peaceful Natives, they started to fight and then they would get killed. The Dakota people were put into a concentration camp at Fort Snelling (“The US-Dakota War.) the concentration camp was similar to the ones made during the 70’s for the Japanese Americans. The Snelling camp was not a death camp, it was more a holding place for the Dakota (“The US-Dakota War of
