To Banish Forever: A Secret Society, the Ho-Chunk, and Ethnic Cleansing in Minnesota indigenous studies is one of the first

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To Banish Forever: A Secret Society, the Ho-Chunk, and Ethnic Cleansing in Minnesota indigenous studies is one of the firstThe largely untold story of the Ho Chunk exile from Minnesota, in which local white residents sought to expel all indigenous people from the region and deny Native claims to some of the richest farmland in the world. In 1863, after the end of the USDakota War, a group of men in Mankato, Minnesota, formed a secret society. At the beginning of every meeting, members of the Knights of the Forest recited its ritual pledge, including these words: "I