Iowa History 101: Inkpaduta in Iowa: Dakota Decline, Dispossession and Erasure

Join the State Historical Society of Iowa for an online learning series that focuses on the past lives of Iowans to help commemorate the 175th anniversary of Iowa. In this session, Kevin Mason, Waldorf University professor, presents about Iowa’s changing physical environment during the 1850s and how northwest Iowa’s worst winter on record (1856-1857) escalated tensions between settlers near Spirit Lake and Indigenous peoples led by Inkpaduta.