AFTERMATH DURING DAKOTA WAR

WHAT DID THEY DO?

• Settlers usually liked to stay out of the war and many flee to southern Minnesota
• There homes and villages were destroyed and raided
• There are in St. Paul at the present time, 23 widows, whose husbands were killed by the Indians. They have in the aggregate 57 children, mostly small and many of them infants. There are also four children who lost both parents. . . . There are so many to be provided for, here and elsewhere, that it is impossible to prevent suffering."