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What This Fort Stands For: conflicting memory at Bdote/Historic Fort Snelling (2016)
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For Dakota people, there is no more painful and conflicted a site of memory in Minnesota than Historic Fort Snelling (HFS). Built on sacred grounds and used as a prison camp following the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War, this historic property has until recently been represented in a highly selective fashion, suppressing Dakota and others' memory. In this paper I trace some of the specific processes of forgetting at HFS, and why those processes are now failing through rising historical pluralism. Yet...