Thirty Eight & Two Tears (Forgiveness) ~ RAMP
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Dakota War of 1862 ~ A Ride To Remember ~ December 26, 2013
http://www.winonadakotaunityalliance.org/1862exhibit/10_BITTER_END.pdf
They ride to remember. Traveling by horseback 330 miles from Crow Creek, S.D., to Mankato, through harsh December weather, Dakota tribal members completed this year’s Dakota Wokiksuye memorial ride on Thursday morning. As in years past, they shared sacred sage smoke, prayers and dances to commemorate the 151st anniversary of the largest mass execution in the nation’s history. On the day after Christmas 1862, on orders signed by President Lincoln, 38 Dakota fighters were hanged in Mankato following the bloody, six-week U.S.-Dakota War. The spot where the gallows once stood is now known as Reconciliation Park. To learn more about that tragedy and see a photo gallery of the riders, visit www.startribune.com/dakota
On September 28, 1862, 5 days after the Battle of Wood Lake, General Sibley commissioned 5 U.S. military officers to hear the cases of 393 of the Dakota Akicita. In total, 323 Dakota were convicted of crimes ranging from murder of Civilians to simply being present at a battle with U.S. troops. There were as many as 42 trials per day—many taking as few as 10 minutes. Virtually no evidence was presented, and basic judicial procedures were not followed. All but 20 of those convicted were sentenced to death
Ta-he-do-ne-cha, Ptan-doo-tah, Wy-a-tah-ta-wa, Hin-hau-shoon-ko-yag-ma-ne, Ha-pau
Ma-za-bom-doo, Wak-pa-doo-ta, Wa-he-hua, Sua-ma-ne, Rda-in-yan-ka, Doo-wau-sa
Shoon-ka-ska, Toon-kau-e-cha-tag-ma-ne, E-tay-doo-tay, Am-da-cha, Hay-pe-pau
Mah-pe-o-ke-na-jui, HarryMilord, Chas-kay-dau, BaptisteCampbell, Ta-ta-ka-gay
Hay-pin-kpa, HypoliteAuge, Ka-pay-shue, Wa-kau-tau-ka, Toon-kau-ko-yag-e-na-jui
Wa-ka-ta-e-na-jui, Pa-za-koo-tay-ma-ne, Ta-tay-hde-dau, Wa-she-choon, A-c-cha-ga
Ho-tan-in-koo, Khay-tan-hoon-ka, Chau-ka-had, Hda-hin-hday, O-ya-tay-a-kee
Ma-hoo-way-ma, Wa-kin-yan-wa
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A newly passed federal statute mandated that the President of the United States approve all executions. Abraham Lincoln deliberated the individual cases for just under a month and then decreased the number of Dakota to be hanged to 39. Lincoln issued orders to execute these Dakota on December 6, 1862. One of the cases was stayed due to new evidence, which lowered the final number of Dakota to be hanged to 38. Prisoners were not told of the executions until December 16. On December 24, 1862, the 38 Dakota, who were sentenced to be hanged, were allowed to meet with their families for the last time. On the morning of December 26, 1862, in Mankato, the 38 prisoners were hung in front of an audience of over 3,000, in a town with a population of only 200 people.
“[Tell our friends that we are being removed from this world over the same path they must shortly travel. We go 1st, but many of our friends may follow us in a very short time. I expect to go direct to the abode of the Great Spirit, and to be happy when I get there; but we are told that the road is long and the distance great; therefore, as I am slow in my movements, it will probably take me a long time to reach the end of the journey, and I should not be surprised if some of the young, active men we will leave behind us will pass me on the road before I reach the place of my destination” ~Statement of Ptan-doo-tah (one of the 38 Dakota hung) at the time of his execution sentence, Dec.24,1862.
Execution of the Thirty-Eight Sioux Indians at Mankato, Minnesota. December 26,1862. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by John C.Wise in the Office of Librarian of Congress at Washington. Hayes Litho Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
December 26, 1862: thirty-eight Dakota Indians were hanged in Mankato, Minnesota, in the largest mass execution in US history–on orders of President Abraham Lincoln. Their crime: killing 490 white settlers, including women and children, in the Santee Sioux uprising the previous August.
The execution took place on a giant square scaffold in the center of town, in front of an audience of hundreds of white people. The thirty-eight Dakota men “wailed and danced atop the gallows,” according to Robert K. Elder of The New York Times, “waiting for the trapdoors to drop beneath them.” A witness reported that, “as the last moment rapidly approached, they each called out their name and shouted in their native language: ‘I’m here! I’m here!’”
Lincoln’s treatment of defeated Indian rebels against the United States stood in sharp contrast to his treatment of Confederate rebels. He never ordered the executions of any Confederate officials or generals after the Civil War, even though they killed more than 400,000 Union soldiers. The only Confederate executed was the commander of Andersonville Prison—and for what we would call war crimes, not rebellion.
Minnesota was a new frontier state in 1862, where white settlers were pushing out the Dakota Indians—also called the Sioux. A series of broken peace treaties culminated in the failure of the United States that summer to deliver promised food and supplies to the Indians, partial payment for their giving up their lands to whites. One local trader, Andrew Myrick, said of the Indians’ plight, “If they are hungry, let them eat grass.”
The Dakota leader Little Crow then led his “enraged and starving” tribe in a series of attacks on frontier settlements. The “US-Dakota War” didn’t last long: After six weeks, Henry Hastings Sibley, first governor of Minnesota and a leader of the state militia, captured 2,000 Dakota, and a military court sentenced 303 to death.
Lincoln, however, was “never an Indian hater,” Eric Foner writes in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. He did not agree with General John Pope, sent to put down a Sioux uprising in southern Minnesota, who said “It is my purpose utterly to exterminate the Sioux if I have the power to do so.” Lincoln “carefully revi
