Can you believe that we are in August already? The sun is high, the cicadas are buzzing, and if you look closely you can see the end of summer in sight. It’s a time of year that means ...

The settlers were uneasy on the morning of Aug 17, 1862. Their isolated homesteads were vulnerable to Indian raids, and now the whole Minnesota River valley had fallen silent. Suddenly, all hell ...

Thomas D. Phillips (MMgmt’71) co-authored the book Fire in the North: The Minnesota Uprising and the Sioux War in Dakota Territory. It recounts the Dakota War of 1862, also known as the Sioux Uprising ...

New York: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2011. Pp. xvi, 208. Illus., maps, append., index. $18.99. ISBN: 0805093648. Tracing Sioux history from 1862 to the present, the author begins with the 1862 uprising ...