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  1. 26 Dec 2018
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  2. 26 Dec 2018

    The hanging of the came at the culmination of the Dakota War, which started because of a treaty broken by Congress. The Dakota people were being starved to death. “Let then eat grass or their own dung,” Andrew Myrick, a trader & store owner who withheld their rations.

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  3. 26 Dec 2018

    This Day in History - Dec. 26, 1862: 38 Dakota men were executed on approval of Abraham Lincoln in the largest US mass execution. Two additional Dakota leaders were later hunted down & executed, as well. +2

  4. 26 Dec 2018

    Here are the names of those who were hanged unjustly.

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  5. 26 Dec 2018

    Around 1,700 Dakota, mostly women and children, were held as prisoners at Fort Snelling. Disease & death were rampant. This is Chief Little Crow’s wife and children at Fort Snelling.

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  6. 26 Dec 2018

    Chief Little Crow, a leader during the Dakota War, was later assassinated. His remains were mutilated by townspeople & displayed. They stuffed firecrackers in his nose & ears and lit them. Local doctors eventually took his body parts to study.

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  7. 26 Dec 2018

    The accused were subjected to sham trials held in English (a language foreign to them), and they had no legal representation. Many were innocent. They were hanged anyway, on a custom made scaffold, in front of a cheering mob.

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  8. 26 Dec 2018

    Dakota women & children were forced to watch the hanging. One Dakota infant was reportedly snatched from the arms of a mother and killed on sight.

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  9. 26 Dec 2018

    Two more Dakota leaders, Shakopee (Little Six) and Medicine Bottle, were later captured and executed. This is why the number is referred to as the +2.

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  10. 25 Dec 2018

    The Christmas season is a happy time for many. But for a Oceti Sakowin (the Great Sioux Nation) it holds painful memories. Sitting Bull was assassinated on Dec 15. The were hanged Dec 26 in the largest execution in US history & the was Dec 29.

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    After the hanging of the , the Dakota people were exiled from their stolen homelands in Minnesota. The governor put a bounty on their scalps. The Dakota people were separated and sent to prison camps in other states where the women were raped by soldiers.

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  13. 26 Dec 2018

    This is my ancestor, Chief Wabasha, a Mdewakanton Dakota hereditary Chief. He was exiled to Crow Creek in South Dakota.

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    Andrew Myrick was among the first to die. He was found with grass in his mouth.

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  16. 26 Dec 2018

    Especially remember that if you are driving the Rogers Pass on the Trans Canada Highway. It was named after Major AB Rogers who was an officer in the US Cavalry that committed genocide against Dakota.

  17. 26 Dec 2018

    Funny how he orders the snatching & killing of native bodies the day after Christmas, then signs the Emancipation Proclamation six days later

  18. 26 Dec 2017

    While Lincoln is revered for signing the Emancipation Proclamation, he also, days before signing, sentenced 38 Dakota men to death - mass hanged today, in 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota. What history textbooks teaches you about our losses / who American heroes really were?

  19. 23 Dec 2017

    Dakota 38+2 Wokiksuye. The Dakota 38+2 memorial riders are out now riding in remembrance of the mass execution of Dakota peoples ordered by Lincoln. It was the largest mass execution in history. Strength to the riders. Powerful Ledger Art by Travis Blackbird .

  20. 26 Dec 2017

    Wow. The more you know... Powerful and tragic history lesson here. Abe Lincoln may have freed Black slaves, but he nor his Congress weren't nearly as kind to other people of color, like the Dakota.

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