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Native Tribe To Get Back Land 160 Years After Largest Mass Hanging In US History

Upper Sioux Agency state park in Minnesota, where bodies of those killed after US-Dakota war are buried, to be transferred

— Associated Press | Sunday 3 September, 2023

The Upper Sioux Agency State Park near Granite Falls, Minnesota. Photograph: Trisha Ahmed/AP

Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the United States failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans more than a century ago. Now their descendants are getting the land back.

The state is taking the rare step of transferring the park with a fraught history back to a Dakota tribe, trying to make amends for events that led to a war and the largest mass hanging in US history.

“It’s a place of holocaust. Our people starved to death there,” said Kevin Jensvold, chairman of the Upper Sioux Community, a small tribe with about 550 members just outside the park.

The Upper Sioux Agency state park in south-western Minnesota spans a little more than 2 sq miles (about 5 sq km) and includes the ruins of a federal complex where officers withheld supplies from Dakota people, leading to starvation and deaths.

Decades of tension exploded into the US-Dakota war of 1862 between settler-colonists and a faction of Dakota people, according to the Minnesota Historical Society. After the US won the war, the government hanged more people than in any other execution in the nation. A memorial honors the 38 Dakota men killed in Mankato, 110 miles (177km) from the park.

Jensvold said he has spent 18 years asking the state to return the park to his tribe. He began when a tribal elder told him it was unjust Dakota people at the time needed to pay a state fee for each visit to the graves of their ancestors there.

Native American tribe in Maine buys back Island taken 160 years ago! The Passamaquoddy’s purchase of Pine Island for $355,000 is the latest in a series of successful ‘land back’ campaigns for indigenous people in the US. Pine Island. Photograph: Courtesy the writer, Alice Hutton. Friday 4 June, 2021

Lawmakers finally authorized the transfer this year when Democrats took control of the house, senate and governor’s office for the first time in nearly a decade, said State Senator Mary Kunesh, a Democrat and descendant of the Standing Rock Nation.

Tribes speaking out about injustices have helped more people understand how lands were taken and treaties were often not upheld, Kunesh said, adding that people seem more interested now in “doing the right thing and getting lands back to tribes”.

But the transfer also would mean fewer tourists and less money for the nearby town of Granite Falls, said Mayor Dave Smiglewski. He and other opponents say recreational land and historic sites should be publicly owned, not given to a few people, though lawmakers set aside funding for the state to buy land to replace losses in the transfer.

The park is dotted with hiking trails, campsites, picnic tables, fishing access, snowmobiling and horseback riding routes and tall grasses with wildflowers that dance in hot summer winds.

“People that want to make things right with history’s injustices are compelled often to support action like this without thinking about other ramifications,” Smiglewski said. “A number, if not a majority, of state parks have similar sacred meaning to Indigenous tribes. So where would it stop?”

In recent years, some tribes in the US, Canada and Australia have gotten their rights to ancestral lands restored with the growth of the Land Back movement, which seeks to return lands to Indigenous people.

‘It’s a powerful feeling’: the Indigenous American tribe helping to bring back buffalo 🦬! Matt Krupnick in Wolakota Buffalo Range, South Dakota. Sunday 20 February, 2022. The Wolakota Buffalo Range in South Dakota has swelled to 750 bison with a goal of reaching 1,200. Photograph: Matt Krupnick

A National Park has never been transferred from the US government to a tribal nation, but a handful are Co-managed with Tribes, including Grand Portage National Nonument in northern Minnesota, Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona and Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, Jenny Anzelmo-Sarles of the National Park Service said.

This will be the first time Minnesota transfers a state park to a Native American community, said Ann Pierce, director of Minnesota State Parks and trails at the natural resources department.

Minnesota’s transfer, expected to take years to finish, is tucked into several large bills covering several issues. The bills allocate more than $6m to facilitate the transfer by 2033. The money can be used to buy land with recreational opportunities and pay for appraisals, road and bridge demolition and other engineering.

Chris Swedzinski and Gary Dahms, the Republican lawmakers representing the portion of the state encompassing the park, declined through their aides to comment about their stances on the transfer.

— The Guardian USA

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Sooo i started watching Hetalia a while ago and I'm enjoying it!

But I was just wondering, why do all the other country's have diffrent accents but Canada doesn't? Why doesn't he have a accent?

But then i remembered, I'm Canadian.

The reason Canada "doesn't have an accent" is because the accent sounds normal to me..

I'm a dumbass

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2Day...

...In Toronto,🍁Canada🇨🇦

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—Bones, "The Mummy in the Maze"

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Langa: You never say anything romantic to me.

Reki: I literally JUST called you the rootinest poutinist mapleleaf the world has ever seen.

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It's too hot out y'all 😩

Where is my falllllll

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How is the cost of living in Canada?

Canadians who can actually get a house rn:

You can look up inflation rates and average income vs cost of living but I'll share anecdotally:

• most people I know have given up on the idea of homeownership OR they are childfree and have purchased houses with other friends. You need more than 2 incomes now. People who WANT to have kids have been putting it off longer and longer

• everywhere is shortstaffed yet people are job searching for months

• our top talent keeps leaving Canada (doctors, scientists, etc) because their take home pay is laughable compared to the US and Europe

• people are posting their groceries week over week showing inflation and skrinkflation. A 5lb bag of chicken fingers is $10, then the next week, that same 5lbs bag is now chicken "bites" and $15 🫠

• our taxes keep going up but the services they're supposed to pay for keep getting CUT 🙃

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hellois this mcdonalds can i get a uhhhhh. team canada? yeag thanks

gonna be real with u anon i was gonna do a draw the squad meme with this prompt and then realised i've never actually drawn pause or beef before?? so i did some headshots instead. hopefully this satisfies ur cravings anyway

ahdkdndnd i did absolutely no referencing here outside of their Minecraft skins (and what my brain remembered Beef and Pause's hair looking like) bc i got flustered trying to design so many (two, synnie. it was two) men in a row 😭 all colours (outside of Etho's, since i have a design for him) were colour picked directly from their skins. i hope it's okay that i chose not to incorporate Pause's headdress - i didn't want to accidentally fuck something up :<

side note: i'm so out of practice drawing men, y'all. like, fuck.

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In Toronto,🍁Canada🇨🇦

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