Dorsey Willis (center right) greets an Army representative at a ceremony granting him an apology and honorable discharge on February 11, 1973. The Army had dishonorably discharged Willis in 1906 for his alleged involvement in the Brownsville Incident. Olive Willis (Dorsey’s wife) stands at center left. Photograph by Larry Schreiber for the Minneapolis Star. From box 346 of the Minneapolis and St. Paul newspaper negatives collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Dorsey Willis (second from right) with family members at a ceremony granting him an honorable discharge from the US Army on February 11, 1973. The Army had dishonorably discharged Willis in 1906 for his alleged involvement in the Brownsville Incident. Olive Willis (Dorsey’s wife) stands to his left. Photograph by Larry Schreiber for the Minneapolis Star. From box 346 of the Minneapolis and St. Paul newspaper negatives collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Dorsey Willis (right) and Olive Willis, December 1972. Photograph by John Croft for the Minneapolis Tribune. From box 317 of the Minneapolis and St. Paul newspaper negatives collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Old Fort Brown in Brownsville, Texas, ca. 1911–1917. Dorsey Willis and other soldiers of the Twenty-Fifth Infantry were living in the building during the Brownsville Incident of 1906. DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, via Wikimedia Commons.

Dorsey Willis in December 1972. Photograph by John Croft for the Minneapolis Tribune. From box 317 of the Minneapolis and St. Paul newspaper negatives collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

The Lowry Avenue Bridge (leading into Northeast Minneapolis) lit up in the colors of the Ukrainian flag on February 26, 2022. The gesture showed solidarity with Ukrainians affected by the Russo-Ukrainian War, which had begun two days earlier. Photo by Wikimedia Commons user August Schwerdfeger. CC BY 2.0.

Camp Release, the site of the surrender of hostages after the US–Dakota War of 1862. Photograph by Adrian John Ebell, 1862.

Anpetu Tokeca (also known as John Other Day), a Dakota man who aided settler-colonists during the US–Dakota War of 1862.

People escaping from the US–Dakota War of 1862. Photograph by Adrian John Ebell, August 21, 1862.

A wooden long bow with a fiber string used in the US–Dakota War of 1862.