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The controversy over the "Scaffold" sculpture at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden in Minneapolis has drawn new attention to the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. Specifically, a 

In 2012, to mark the conflict's 150th anniversary, Mankato native and former MPR reporter John Biewen produced a documentary about it. Though he grew up in Mankato, he heard next to nothing about the U.S.-Dakota war during his childhood there. So he traveled around southern Minnesota to places where key events occurred, to explore what happened in all its complexity.

Biewen also looked at the shifting ways Minnesotans have, or have not, told themselves the story of the Dakota war over the years. The documentary is called "

John Biewen is audio program director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. He's host and producer of the podcast SceneOnRadio.org.

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Although Mankato native and former MPR reporter and documentary producer John Biewen grew up in Mankato, he heard next to nothing about the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 during his childhood there.

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