Around 4 am on this day in 1862, Dakota (Mdewakanton and Wahpekute) forces of ~200 attacked ~170 US Army troops at their camp near Birch Coulee (Minnesota). The Dakota victory incurred the heaviest c…

Last sovereign of Kingdom of Hawai'i. Lili'uokalani succeeded her brother on the throne in 1891, she fought to restore Native Hawaiian sovereignty after white landowners had forced him at gunpoint to…