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Narrator Theme Topics Keywords Type
Dean Blue We made a pact, and you’re not paying it. 1862 Treaties, Dakota Land Treaties, Annuity, Acton, Starvation, Land Oral History
Dr. Clifford Canku The way I look at it, is that this country is still ours, spiritually, because it is God-given. Connection to Land Dakota Land, Spirits, Creation Land, Spirits, Ghosts, Camp Coldwater, Homeland, Relatives Oral History
Dallas Ross They are looking there and they don’t really truly understand what happened. 1862 Mankato, Mankato Hangings Land, Mankato Oral History
Dr. Elden Lawrence “You guys can’t be in here; I own all the air in here” Shared History Dakota Land, Treaties, Immigration, U.S. Government Land, Settlers, Treaties, Encroachment, Dakota and U.S. Gov't Oral History
Dr. Elden Lawrence "We’re going to drive you all the way to the Rocky Mountains" Shared History Treaties, Dakota Social Structure, U.S. Government, Dakota Land Treaties, Dakota and U.S. Gov't, Land Oral History
Melvin Longclaws People have to know it or else we forget 1862 Perspectives on War, Shared History, Manifest Destiny Land, U.S. Government, Genocide, Germ Warfare Oral History
Willard Manderfeld I don't think they got a very fair deal Shared History Treaties Treaties, Land Oral History
Myron Taylor These people, those people, our relatives, were fighting for the same thing. 1862 Perspectives on 1862, Aftermath of 1862, Family in 1862, Ways of Commemorating Discrimination, Education, School, Land, History, Christianity, Family, Mankato Hanging Oral History

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