The execution was ordered by Abraham Lincoln.”
Lincoln ordered the execution of thirty-eight Dakota Indians for rebellion—but never ordered the execution of Confederate officials or generals.
After a violent Native American uprising in 1862, President Lincoln signed off on 39 executions but also prevented the deaths of 264 other ...
26 in a bizarre mass execution witnessed by a large crowd of Minnesotans.
Lincoln's order to Sibley—in his own handwriting—allowed the execution of only 39 ...
The Sand Creek Massacre in southeastern Colorado in 1864 also resulted in the ... “He made no revolutionary change in Indian-white relations as he did in ...
From that time on, the Dakota were to live on a 20-mile (32 km) wide Indian reservation centered on a
The largest mass execution in American history occurred under Abraham
The absence of Native perspectives in American history books and
The shock waves of the largest mass execution in U.S. history still reverberate