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Hello my friends, and Welcome to the Dakota 38 + 2 Memorial Ride Web Site for the 2019 Ride. As usual on these pages will be photos taken by various people but mostly collected by Ron Hamm who is our Moderator for Photos. Many people send him the photos they have taken each day and he makes up a collage of them and posts them on our Face book page. I then use whichever seem good for each day's web page. Also on each days page will be comments, good wishes and prayers from our members for the Riders and the Ride that I collect from the FB page each day. If you would like your words put on here do please post a comment on the FB group page. They do need to be OK'd but there are plenty of Admins to do that so they should show quite quickly. You can also post under someone else's comments, I catch them all if possible. We start each day with a prayer, this year the Sacred words will be contributed by Mo Nichols, one of our Moderators of the group. Thanks so much Mo for accepting my request to do this every day during the Ride. Mo is in Texas. So without further ado, Let's get this page started... |
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Fort Snelling Internment Camp November 7th, 1862: After the fighting stopped, and their husband, father, sons and male friends were all captured and went through a legal procedure that was unbelievable; a farce, about 1,700 Dakota; primarily the women, children and elders, were forced marched in a (four-mile long) procession from the Lower Sioux Agency to Fort Snelling, MN, where they were made to endure an existence living in the tipi's shown in the photo. During the winter the ground became waterlogged, and frozen, the tipis were crudely made and so not warm as they should be, there was hardly any wood for fires, they had only the clothes they wore, (from the time they were captured, in early fall,) they had no proper food to eat, sickness was rife, and many of them died. In this year's website I will be showing photos of some of the women and children who were surviving the way they were forced to live. I will show a list of the women who were in the camp, taking the place of their husbands, the male role. Something NO Dakota woman would have been used to doing. But they had no choice. Later on in the Ride I will show photos of the Women who did a March every other year to remember those women, walking in their footsteps, and leaving a marker for those they had the names of, and then I will show the women who Ride for the men who were hung, and/or help the Ride for their ancestors. I have such respect and awe for all of these women. Gloria |
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Day 1. December 10th 2019 Prayer for today Mo Nichols
Route for today.
Today the Ride starts, and goes from Lower Brule to Fort Thompson, 11 miles. Tonight the Riders will stay at the Fort Thompson Hotel and the horses will be stabled at The Fort Thompson Rodeo grounds Corral. Breakfast will be at the Lower Brule High School, Lunch and Dinner will be at the Hotel
From our Members: Kendra Thomas:
Photos from todays Ride:
These 3 from Volney Fast Horse.
The next two are from Isaac Miller
Jim Miller with the Staff
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Dakota 38 + 2 Memorial Ride Supporters group on Facebook Historic photographs courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society Website mostly written and Created by Gloria Hazell Derby Dragonfly Dezignz © 2019 to date |
