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Events on Friday 26 December 1862 1
1862Dakota War in MinnesotaSioux uprising against broken treaty promisesDakota Sioux, facing broken treaty payments and starvation, attacked white settlements across the Minnesota River valley. The conflict ended with the mass execution of 38 Dakota men in Mankato, the largest single-day execution in US history.