Uh, the sad truth, they were hanged for participating in an uprising, against an invading enemy.
The Indians never fought the White man except, on their own soil, in their own country, only then did they resist the invader, the United States was that invader.
Lincoln sanctioned the ongoing genocide of nations, tribes and people, in short, men, women and children were robbed, starved and slaughtered, all under the auspices of the stars and stripes.
There were plenty of settlers and tribes that learned to live together.
Not all settlers were an invading enemy.
I'm sure you dont mean that....
Are you part/all Indian?
So the genocidal Lincoln had the chance to hang 303 men but he didn't? How do you explain that? He also said if he lived to see the end of the Civil War he would change the way that America treated the Indians. Lincoln sent a secretary to MN to make sure they did not hang all the Indian men against his orders.
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/mnstatehistory/thedakotaconflict.html
"Military trials of 425 pure and mixed-blood Dakota took on a farcical air, with many trials lasting only a few minutes each. Many convictions relied upon testimony of other accused who plea-bargained in return for leniency. When 321 men were convicted and all but 18 sentenced to die, a Catholic bishop who had worked with the Dakota, Bishop Whipple, convinced President Abraham Lincoln to intervene. Upon examining the convictions, Lincoln commuted the sentences of all but convicted rapists and murderers to prison. On December 26, 1862, three thousand people gathered to watch the hanging of these thirty-eight Dakota in Mankato, MN. It is the largest mass execution in United States history. Life was not easy for the survivors. The government declared the various land treaties negotiated with the Dakota as null and void due to the conflict. No Dakota were permitted to live in Minnesota and the bounty on Dakota scalps was raised. Indian annuities were ended and given to settlers to help them rebuild their shattered lives. 1700 Dakota were rounded up and marched to Fort Snelling where they lived in cramped conditions. Various epidemics took the lives of many. These Dakota were eventually repatriated by force to Crow Creek in the Dakota Territory."
"Exaggerated figures abounded immediately after the conflict but the true count of war dead was 77 soldiers, 413 white civilians, and 71 Indians (38 of which were those executed in Mankato). Both sides suffered greatly. Unfortunately the suffering would only continue as the frontier of the United States pushed farther and farther west without any significant improvements in United States Indian policy or Indian - settler relations. A memorial to the memory of the dead, both white and Indian, now stands in downtown Mankato at Reconciliation Park."