'Henry Sibley' Name Stripped From Mendota Heights School

Mendota Heights MN

08 December, 2020

11:03 AM

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MENDOTA HEIGHTS, MN — The West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan school board Monday voted to remove "Henry Sibley" from the name of the Mendota Heights high school. Sibley was Minnesota's first governor and later a colonel during the U.S.-Dakota War. According to the Star Tribune, Sibley oversaw the 1862 military commission that sentenced 303 Dakota men to death, including the 38 who were hanged in Mankato, Minnesota. The killing of the 38 Dakota men in Mankato remains the largest mass execution in United States history. The Minnesota Historical Society operates the "Sibley Historic Site" in nearby Mendota.