The Minnesota River Flush team exemplified the purpose of our entire effort. Dakota Sioux Indians in 1862 were restricted to reservations along the Minnesota River, but were cheated out of land and starved by exchanges that were never fulfilled by the U.S. government. This led to Indians attacking settlers, which then became the excuse for making war on the Indians. In the war many settlers and even more Indians were killed. The Indians lost their reservations and 38 of them were hanged for their part in the uprising. Even to this day, Minnesota has paid a great price for this blot on its history.

The Minnesota River Flush team prayed at a number of locations not on the river per se, including Fort Ridgely and the Upper Sioux Agency, and they prayed at the following locations on the Minnesota River:

• Ortonville - at the bridge over the dam between Big Stone Lake and the beginning of the Minnesota River

• Granite Falls - where a descendant of one of those executed prayed a blessing on the prayer journey

• Redwood Ferry Crossing - on the Little Sioux Agency near Redwood Falls, where hostile Indians ambushed and killed over 30 soldiers. Here there was much repentance and much prayer for reconciliation and healing. At this location, a member of the team received a powerful vision of a 40-50 foot tall angel called Revival, where whites and Indians walked on him like a bridge to become reconciled.

• Mankato Reconciliation Park - at the white buffalo statue. Again, white and Indian joined together to pray. The white buffalo signifies family reconciliation but also the washing by the blood of Jesus. Mankato is where the Minnesota River makes a huge bend and the river moves from flowing from north to south to now flowing south to north - thus Mankato is here attitudes are changed in repentance.

• Sibley Park - this is where Indians were confined as they waited for unjust judgment and execution. During worship, seven eagles took flight.

• St Peter - the unjust treaty was signed here in 1851 that took more land from the Indians

• Le Sueur - here is where many of the bones of the bodies of the executed Indians were held and not returned to their tribes and families.

• Fort Snelling - many intercessors gathered here to pray where the Minnesota River merges with the Mississippi.