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Pain, hope, history share the ride as Dakota Exiles commemorate Mankato hangings

Dakota Exiles Ride
Dakota Exiles riders prepare to ride the last leg of the day through Crofton, Neb., on Dec. 14. The ride honors the Dakota men executed in a mass hanging in Mankato, Minn., in December 1862 and the exile of Indigenous people from their lands at the end of the U.S.-Dakota War.
Jon Stegenga for MPR News