Bdote | The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862

"'Where the two waters come together,' otherwise referred to as Bdote, is the center of Dakota spirituality and history.  This is where the Dakota people began."

Sheldon Wolfchild, Lower Sioux Community of Dakota, 2011

The junction of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers--known to the Dakota as Bdote--is a place of major social, cultural, and historical significance to all people inhabiting the region, a place whose history evokes both pride and pain.  It is a place of cultural importance to many Dakota people as a site of creation, as well as a historical gathering place and the site of the internment of Dakota people in the wake of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862.

Learn more about Bdote and other places of creation and historical importance:

Bdote Memory Map

Minnesotahistory.net

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