Upper Sioux Agency
Upper Sioux Agency | |
Location | 5908 Highway 67, Sioux Agency Township, Minnesota, U.S. |
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Nearest city | Granite Falls, Minnesota |
Coordinates | 44°44′5″N 95°27′24.23″W / 44.73472°N 95.4567306°W |
Area | 1,300 acres (530 ha) |
Built | 1854 |
NRHP reference No. | 70000315[1] |
Added to NRHP | October 15, 1970 |
Upper Sioux Agency (or Yellow Medicine Agency), was a federal administrative center established in response to treaties with the Dakota people in what became Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, United States.[2] Located on the Minnesota River south of Granite Falls, Minnesota, the government-run campus of employee housing, warehouses and a manual labor school was destroyed in the Dakota War of 1862.[3] The grave of Chief Walking Iron Mazomani, a leader of the Wahpetonwan (Dwellers in the Leaves) Dakota tribes, who was killed during the 1862 Dakota War's Battle of Wood Lake, is here.[2] The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 for having state-level significance under the themes of archaeology, architecture, education, and social history.[4]
Considered sacred for being a place where their ancestors died of starvation, the
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ a b Stanley, Greg (July 1, 2023). "State vows to replace amenities of state park after it's closed and returned to tribe". Star Tribune. Retrieved July 3, 2023.
- ^ a b Stanley, Greg (May 11, 2023). "Minnesota poised to close state park, return land to Dakota tribe". Star Tribune. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
- ^ "Upper Sioux Agency". Minnesota National Register Properties Database. Minnesota Historical Society. 2009. Retrieved June 15, 2015.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Janke, Ryan (January 11, 2023). "State park closing as Minnesota set to give land back to tribal community". KFGO. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
- ^ Lauritsen, John (March 15, 2024). "Thousand acres of state park land near Granite Falls returned to Upper Sioux Community". CBS News Minnesota. Retrieved March 16, 2024.
- ^ Lauritsen, John (February 15, 2024). "After decades-long fight, state park land will be returned to Upper Sioux Community". CBS News Minnesota. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
- ^ Krueger, Andrew (February 8, 2021). "Western Minnesota highway that's sliding down hillside may be removed, rerouted". MPR News. Retrieved June 27, 2023.
- ^ "Tribe getting piece of Minnesota back more than a century after ancestors died there". KNSI. Associated Press. September 5, 2023. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
External links
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