Their guilt was not in doubt. There was a much larger number that they wanted to hang. Lincoln made solid efforts to find the ones guilty beyond any doubt.
These treacherous SOBs took advantage of the distraction of the civil war to attack innocent settlers. They murdered and raped their way across the area. They left 450-800 dead depending on the source. 77 soldiers died too.
The revisionist view is that the Sioux did nothing wrong by murdering their way from farm to farm.
I’m sick enough of historical revisionism to support making it a capital crime.
>The revisionist view is that the Sioux did nothing wrong by murdering their way from farm to farm.
Listen, it was just white people they raped and murdered. When it happens to whites it’s justice. Hanging the Sioux who did the raping and murder is the real injustice. /s
The killing of the settlers by the Sioux was also called, at the time, the “Minnesota Massacre.”
I have a bound “Harper’s New Monthly Magazine” from the early 1860’s that has an illustrated magazine article about this rampage.
This was a big news story at the time (1862) and pushed the Civil War news off the front pages of many newspapers.
Precisely
A re-write of history.
There’s a lot of that going on these days...
I’m on many Far West history sites. The image that plains Indians were nothing more than Gaia-loving, earth-worshipping, peace-loving hunter-gatherers is hard to shift in the Howard Zinn age. But if you study in-depth, you’ll see just how unbelievably cruel they were to the pioneers and settlers. One of the reasons the 7th Cavalry never got a day’s rest.
But..."Red Lives Matter"
Hang all murderous vermin (or shoot them in self-defense). MAGA.
Muslims before their time?
Good post............