The Minnesota River Valley was awash in blood. On August 17, 1862, four young warriors hungry and resentful over broken treaties, unkept promises and mistreatment had murdered five white settlers near Acton in central Minnesota. This isolated, unplanned and random event swept like a wildfire ravaging the prairie. From the two agency reservations to Fort Ridgely to towns and settlers cabins, the rampage spread from the Valley and spilled onto the prairies north and south of the river. Hundreds of whites were killed. Estimates ranged as high as eight hundred dead. No one knows for sure how many died. Much of western and southern Minnesota was depopulated. The question was how many had been killed and how many had just left never to return? Indian dead were left uncounted. One thing was clear. Most of the dead were settlers, not soldiers. The Santee Dakota fought a total war. Men, women and children were killed. Many died as their killers feigned friendship. Most were unaware...

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