[PDF] Outbreak And Massacre By The Dakota Indians In Minnesota In 1862 eBook

Author : Marion P. Satterlee
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 18,15 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780788418969

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Originally published: A detailed account of the massacre by the Dakota Indians of Minnesota in 1862. Minneapolis: Marion P. Satterlee, [1923]. With new introd.

Author : Harriet E. Bishop McConkey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0429681119

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First published in 1970, this volume from Mrs Harriet E. Bishop McConkey, a pioneer schoolteacher of St. Paul, Minnesota, was part of the first wave of contemporaneous accounts from Americans in 1863 documenting their perspective of the Sioux Uprising between the 17th of August and the 26th of September 1862. At least 450 settlers and soldiers were killed, depopulating large areas. Although not a direct eyewitness to events, Harriet McConkey was on the fringes of the action in St. Paul and gathered material firsthand from the participants themselves, enabling her to convey the settlers’ story with profound emotional involvement and intimacy, though with equally profound bitterness for the Native Americans. McConkey made little attempt to explore their motivations in the form of famine, late payment and poor treatment. Though imperfect, hers remains an important account documenting the settlers’ experience of the event which began a succession of wars over thirty years, ending at Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1890.

Author : Gary Clayton Anderson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0806165707

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In August 1862 the worst massacre in U.S. history unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what has come to be known as the Dakota War, the most violent ethnic conflict ever to roil the nation. When it was over, between six and seven hundred white settlers had been murdered in their homes, and thirty to forty thousand had fled the frontier of Minnesota. But the devastation was not all on one side. More than five hundred Indians, many of them women and children, perished in the aftermath of the conflict; and thirty-eight Dakota warriors were executed on one gallows, the largest mass execution ever in North America. The horror of such wholesale violence has long obscured what really happened in Minnesota in 1862—from its complicated origins to the consequences that reverberate to this day. A sweeping work of narrative history, the result of forty years’ research, Massacre in Minnesota provides the most complete account of this dark moment in U.S. history. Focusing on key figures caught up in the conflict—Indian, American, and Franco- and Anglo-Dakota—Gary Clayton Anderson gives these long-ago events a striking immediacy, capturing the fears of the fleeing settlers, the animosity of newspaper editors and soldiers, the violent dedication of Dakota warriors, and the terrible struggles of seized women and children. Through rarely seen journal entries, newspaper accounts, and military records, integrated with biographical detail, Anderson documents the vast corruption within the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the crisis that arose as pioneers overran Indian lands, the failures of tribal leadership and institutions, and the systemic strains caused by the Civil War. Anderson also gives due attention to Indian cultural viewpoints, offering insight into the relationship between Native warfare, religion, and life after death—a nexus critical to understanding the conflict. Ultimately, what emerges most clearly from Anderson’s account is the outsize suffering of innocents on both sides of the Dakota War—and, identified unequivocally for the first time, the role of white duplicity in bringing about this unprecedented and needless calamity.

Author : Daniel Buck
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 36,9 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Dakota Indians
ISBN :

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Details events during the Sioux uprising of 1862, expecially the atrocities inflicted on pioneer settlers of Minnesota, from contemporaries of the outbreaks.