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When Oglala Sioux Tribe officials contacted ICE and U.S. Homeland Security for additional information about their members, they were told they needed to sign an immigration agreement. “The irony is not lost on us,” Frank Star Comes Out said. “Lakota citizens who are reported to be held at Fort Snelling — a site forever tied to the Dakota 38 — underscores why treaty obligations and federal accountability matter today, not just in history.”

During the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, thousands of Dakota were held at Fort Snelling in St. Paul, Minnesota. Thirty-eight prisoners would later be hanged during a public execution in nearby Mankato, according to the Minnesota Historical Society.

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Dakota War of 1862 - Wikipedia

The Dakota War of 1862 [was] an armed conflict between the United States and several eastern bands of Dakota collectively known as the Santee Sioux. It began on August 18, 1862, when the Dakota, who were facing starvation and displacement, attacked the Lower Sioux Agency and white settlements along the Minnesota River valley in southwest Minnesota. The war lasted for five weeks and resulted in the deaths of hundreds of settlers and the displacement of thousands more.

In the aftermath, the Dakota people were exiled from their homelands, forcibly sent to reservations in the Dakotas and Nebraska, and the State of Minnesota confiscated and sold all their remaining land in the state. Thirty-eight Dakota men were subsequently hanged for crimes committed during the conflict in the largest mass execution in US history.