NEW ULM -- After a year off, the Dakota Riders are riding again for Reconciliation Park in Mankato, with an overnight stop in New Ulm. From 2004 to 2022, members of the Dakota nations participated in the 38+2 Reconciliation Ride, traveling by horseback from Crow Creek or Lower Brule, South Dakota to Mankato, Minnesota in memory of the 38 Dakota men executed in Mankato, on Dec. 26, 1862, following the U.S. Dakota War. Initially, 303 Native Americans had been sentenced to death. Abraham Lincoln looked over each case and reduced the number to 38. The plus two came as two more men were ...