This is a really awful case. Firstly, corrupt agents of the US government took money the US government was obligated to pay for food for the upkeep of the tribes on their reservations to line their own pockets. The treaty had called for the Dakota to receive these supplies in exchange for their land. Thus the tribes were literally starving. Lincoln refused to pay the tribes money they were owed under the treaty with which they could have bought food. Not surprisingly this enraged them and they lashed out at White settlers. There were several atrocities committed against the White settlers beyond any doubt.
The Federal army put down the uprising.....then just grabbed any Dakota around and claimed they had committed the atrocities against the settlers without any proof that the individuals grabbed by the Army actually had. After complete sham trials that lasted on average TEN MINUTES each and frequently without even having translators present, surprise surprise, they were convicted. Lincoln knee this was a complete sham but the White settlers in Minnesota were (understandably) pissed and wanted blood. Not wanting to lose votes, Lincoln allowed 38 of the death sentences to be carried out thus making him the only POTUS in history to order a mass e execution.
Then the whole tribe was rounded up and sent away to another reservation where the US government deliberately starved them again. Then they finally released them further West but made sure to do so after planting season so they’d starve yet again.
For good measure, the US government rounded up the nearby Winnebago who had not even participated in the uprising and ethnically cleansed them too.
Then members of the Lincoln administration were able to use their connections to snap up land the Indians had been ethnically cleansed from at bargain basement prices and flip them for huge profits.
I’d recommend reading 38 Nooses which is an excellent book about this. There was also a BBC documentary called Lincoln:Saint or Sinner which went into detail about this shameful episode.
Based on your narrative I seriously doubt it.
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The Sioux were savages who got in the way of the western expansion. They displaced the Ojibwa in many parts of Southern Minnesota by their raiding parties and cold blooded murder. It is the way of the world snowflake. They were nomadic and historically moved from place to place with some agriculture but primarily hunter/gatherers.
My great grandparents and their children paid for their land by the sweat of their brow; no handouts to immigrants back then. You worked very hard, raised a family and saved every little bit that you could. I won't be apologizing for their hard work and frugal lifestyles.
My grandmother on my mothers side hated the Sioux. In the late summer and early fall groups of them would wander through Lyon County in Southern Minnesota, not looking for work but for anything they could steal. They would see my grandfather out in the field with his dog and they would sneak into the farmstead, stealing clothes off the clothesline and making a mess of her garden. That was in the 1890's when they could ill-afford it, but they managed through their own hard work.
150 years after their murderous rampage in 1862 against farmers who did them no harm the Sioux still refuse to adapt to the reality of America, parked out in South Dakota on reservation lands living off whatever the government will give them for free. I have no sympathy for folks who refuse to get an education and find productive work. Sittin' on the Rez' is a dead end. Make something of yourself and quit your b#tchin'.
I'm beginning to think that the Lincoln era was primarily one of corruption from the beginning to the end, and by the time Grant came along, the corruption was so inherent in the Lincoln's legacy government, that it became so obvious as to attract everyone's attention to it.
I think it is prophetic that the Lincoln government began as a bunch of corruption and influence peddling in Chicago Illinois. Still the source of much corruption in this nation's history.