Volume 16 , Issue 43

1862 Native of American Tragedy Forgotten

On December 26, 1862 in Mankato, Minnesota. President Lincoln ordered the largest mass hanging in American History, and public Hanging of thirty-eight Sioux and Mixed Blood Indians. Their Crime . . . Uprising against the towns when they were not paid money or given rations for their land sold to the government.

In 1862, the handling a contentious cabinet, wrestling with the Emancipation Proclamation, we find President Abraham Lincoln agonizing over another matter. Lincoln had to decide whether to allow the execution of more than 300 Indians convicted of war crimes in Minnesota's Great Sioux Uprising. One of the first and bloodiest Indian wars on the western frontier, the Great Sioux Uprising (today called the "Dakota-U.S. Conflict") cost the lives of hundreds of Native Americans, white settlers, and soldiers.

The uprising was due to the people were very hungry and needed to eat. Had Lincoln kept promises of the Treaties and paid the Indians it never would have happened. But that part of history is kept quiet. Why? Another sad moment of our Native American history squashed.

Lincoln ended up paying the people of Minnesota more to shut up than actually was owe to the Indians.

See more at the following Link at Historynet.com: Minnesota's Great Sioux Uprising.
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