Minnesota is also the site of continual brutalities and genocide against Indigenous ppl. White supremacist bloodshed against Indigenous people and Black people is built into the makings of the state and every part of its landscape.
in 1862 many Dakota rose up against settlers killing their land, people, and purposely starving them and in return Abe Lincoln hung 38 Dakota men in Mankato. White settlers commemorated the event with engravings and postcards
The Dakota and other Indigenous nations were then forced into concentration camps on Pike island where thousands were starved to death by the US government. There is evidence of mass grave sites near the current Mall of America
when we can look at the history of the police and military in our areas we know their utility is to murder and maim Black and Indigenous ppl and to keep settler colonial capital going
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