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Volume 16, Issue 43 - Feature #7490

1862 Native of American Tragedy Forgotten

Linda; Thank you for letting me share what your other readers have shared in reference to our sympathetic thoughts and feelings about the plight of the Amercan Indian.If any one of your readers should ever chance to see the poverty, the hopelessness, and the squalor of a modern Indian reservation, they may find it possible to truly understand the resons why. I too compliment you with the topics you cover, I have read many of the articles you have shared. I really enjoyed reading about the old west and the little known outlaws, as an example. I also say, keep up the good work.

John Callan - 2014-12-17 23:12:14

Thanks for the information and sharing with us at The OkieLegacy

Linda McGill Wagner - 2014-12-16 16:28:12

I encourage those who have had a chance read about Minnesota's Sioux Uprising to read Dee Brown's book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. It is real eye opener how the Native Americans were treated . The Stanosheck ancestors and mine (Callan's) settled on land that was formally Otoe Reservation Land in southeastern Nebraska. Odell Nebraska formally known as Charleston sits on that land to this day. The following is a clipping from my introduction to The Stanosheck Historical Family Biography. You may think if you were at the land sale ready to make you bid on your piece of the Otoe reservation land is like buying some antiques from a local farmer�s auction; Think again. You will learn new facts about the �Otoe Land Ring of 1883,� The �Conspirators indictment of 1884� and �The Otoe Land Fraud.� These �Wicked and illegal conspiracies� plagued the sale and yes, even land auctions of Otoe reservation land. Yes the land our ancestors settled and the origins of the character and personality of the town of Odell managed to survive. Yet, it was under this dark history that Patrick Murphy (Stanosheck ancestor by marriage) and over 30 other initial settlers who had settled in Odell by 1881 had come to know. The history of the white man's treatment of the native americans goes back to 1829, when Andrew Jackson took office as President. In his frontier career his soldiers slain thousands of Cherokee, Chicksaws, Creeks and Seminoles.

John Callan - 2014-12-16 13:06:42

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