Used to have a neighbor lady who grew up in Acton, MN. She related how as kids on Halloween night they would visit the massacre memorial and it scared the living shit out of them.
I have to ask: Who’s country was it in the first place?
I have to ask: Who’s country was it in the first place?
Used to have a neighbor lady who grew up in Acton, MN. She related how as kids on Halloween night they would visit the massacre memorial and it scared the living shit out of them.
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.
We forget the times this happened. It was believed that the tribes were instigated to rebel by CONFEDERATE AGENTS working through Canada. Even the Navajos were armed and inspired to rebel due to Utah mormons with southern leanings.
All along the High Plains, from Canada to Mexico many of the tribes chose the Confederate states as their new ally over the Union.
Captain Eugene Ware found quite a few Confederate agents, mostly Indians from the Oklahoma tribes instigating the plains tribes to war.
It got so bad that Union troops had to be pulled from fighting in the deep South to fight Indians. Two men of Black Kettle’s band, captured at Sand Creek, had been in the Confederate army and were believed to be agents to keep the tribe fighting the next year.
It is sad what was done to many aboriginal groups in America.
Hi.
You have been posting some good stuff lately.
For example, I didn’t know about the beer ship.
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Is this the hisstory of abortion?
And yet the Northern peoples claim to care about black slaves.
Why would they care about black slaves while they are effectively murdering Indians?