{"id":124891,"date":"2018-12-31T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=124891"},"modified":"2018-12-27T13:16:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T13:16:39","slug":"dec-26-1862-mass-execution-of-dakota-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/12\/dec-26-1862-mass-execution-of-dakota-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec. 26, 1862: Mass Execution of Dakota Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Public execution of 38 Dakota Indians at Mankato; they were found guilty for their actions during the Dakota Conflict.
Illustration by W. H. Childs, 12\/26\/1862. (Courtesy to Pioneer Press: Minnesota Historical Society)<\/p><\/div>\n

On Dec. 26, 1862, 38 Dakota Indians were executed by the U.S. government during the U.S. Dakota War of 1862<\/a> (also known as the Sioux Uprising, Dakota Uprising).<\/p>\n

Jon Wiener provides some background in \u2018Largest Mass Execution in US History: 150 Years Ago Today<\/a>\u2018 in The Nation<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n

Minnesota was a new frontier state in 1862, where white settlers were pushing out the Dakota Indians\u2014also called the Sioux. A series of broken peace treaties culminated in the failure of the United States that summer to deliver promised food and supplies to the Indians, partial payment for their giving up their lands to whites.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Little Crow, a chief of the Mdewakanton Sioux Vannerson, Julian lead his people in the Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota 1862.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Indians responded in the Santee Sioux uprising, killing\u00a0490 white settlers. The Dakota were executed for their role in the war of self-defense. As Wiener notes,<\/p>\n

[President Abraham] Lincoln\u2019s treatment of defeated Indian rebels against the United States stood in sharp contrast to his treatment of Confederate rebels. He never ordered the executions of any Confederate officials or generals after the Civil War, even though they killed more than 400,000 Union soldiers.<\/em><\/p>\n

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To learn more, we recommend the U.S. Dakota War<\/a> website and an edition of This American Life, Little War on the Prairie<\/a>,\u00a0by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University with teaching resources, highlighted in a blog by Debbie Reese on American Indians in Children\u2019s Literature<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 zinnedproject.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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