During lectures or conferences about Palestine in the United States, I have often asked audiences and interlocuters about the Dakota War. More often than not, when there are answers, they follow the contours of a familiar timeline—the war began in 1862 and lasted for five weeks, ending with the expulsion of the Dakota from Minnesota. These spaces—conferences, lectures, roundtables—are often opened with a form of land acknowledgment, within which another articulation of settler time is performed; it is a time that can acknowledge and mourn genocide as long as it is believed to be far enough in the past, as long as archive is another word for mausoleum, as long as history is safely settled.
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