Birch Coulee Monuments
On the hillside just above this point stand two Sioux Outbreak monuments. One, erected by the State in 1894, commemorates the Battle of Birch Coulee, the other, privately built, honors six Sioux Indians who remained friendly in 1862. The Birch Coulee battlefield is 1 miles north near Highway No. 4.
Verbatim 1940 text, presented as a historical record, not current interpretation. Minnesota now calls the 1862 conflict the U.S.-Dakota War and has since replaced the wording on some of these signs.
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