Fort Snelling, Narrated by Keith Ellison
Keith Ellison was first elected Attorney General of Minnesota in 2018 after serving six terms in Congress. As Attorney General, Keith Ellison has made it his mission to help Minnesotans afford their lives and live with dignity, safety, and respect. Ellison traces the layered history of Minnesota's Fort Snelling, from Dred Scott and the Dakota War to its role in immigration enforcement today.
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Hanging of 38 Sioux Indians, 1862. Author: Wellcome Collection. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
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