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On December 26, 1862, on orders signed by President Lincoln, 38 Dakota fighters were hanged in Mankato following the bloody, six-week U.S.-Dakota War. Members of the Dakota tribe, joined by members of other tribal nations, ride by horseback 330 miles every year for the past ten years from Crow Creek, S.D., to Mankato for the Dakota Wokiksuye memorial ride to remember that day in 1862.
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