What This Fort Stands For: conflicting memory at Bdote/Historic Fort Snelling
Author(s): Katherine Hayes
Year: 2016
Summary
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 commemorative pluralism itself may also be seen as forgetting, as long as the fort remains at its center.
Cite this Record
What This Fort Stands For: conflicting memory at Bdote/Historic Fort Snelling. Katherine Hayes. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434934)
This Resource is Part of the Following Collections
Keywords
General
American Indian history
•
forgetting
•
pluralism
Geographic Keywords
North America
•
United States of America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 89