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Algernon Moncrieff

(5,781 posts) Sat Dec 27, 2014, 01:53 AM Dec 2014

330-mile ride in South Dakota and Minnesota remembers hangings of Dakota Indians in 1862

"Happy holidays," said a rider smiling, greeting a number of people on foot who escorted them to a nearby pasture.

Brown said the riders and their entourage, who commemorate the hanging of 38 Dakota Indians on Dec. 26, 1862 in Mankato, have visited his farm every Christmas Day for the past few years, no matter how cold or snowy the weather is.

Thanks to the volunteer efforts of Kristi Debban, Julie Haas, LuAnn Marti and Gloria Desantiago, the riders and those in their support vehicles were given bags of candy, sandwiches and hot cocoa while their horses were given water. A number of businesses donated to the cause.

After learning about this year's ride recently, Debban led the support group by organizing food preparation efforts early Thursday at First United Methodist Church in New Ulm.

"I've always wanted to be a part of this. Now it's finally happening. Once I started talking to people about it, it came together. I'm so glad we did this," Debban told The Journal of New Ulm (http://bit.ly/1zmMGEh ). She added that she was driven by her Native American ancestry to become involved with the two-week, 330-mile ride from Lower Brule, South Dakota, to Mankato, Minnesota.

http://www.startribune.com/local/286872071.html

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330-mile ride in South Dakota and Minnesota remembers hangings of Dakota Indians in 1862 (Original Post) Algernon Moncrieff Dec 2014 OP

Never knew about this Boreal Dec 2014 #1

Yep Cali_Democrat Dec 2014 #2

Don't feel bad. I didn't know about this until about five years ago. Algernon Moncrieff Dec 2014 #3

History is huge Boreal Dec 2014 #5

When I was growing up, this was covered in our Minnesota History classes MrsMatt Dec 2014 #10

I'm Minnesotan and it was barely meantioned in our state history textbooks. Odin2005 Dec 2014 #12

President Abraham Lincoln's legacy. Jesus Malverde Dec 2014 #4

Thank for for posting this information. We should have learned about it long ago, in school. Judi Lynn Dec 2014 #6

This atrocity bpollen Dec 2014 #7

wow it's even more disgusting Jesus Malverde Dec 2014 #8

Very bad, indeed Algernon Moncrieff Dec 2014 #13

k and r dembotoz Dec 2014 #9

This is the dark underbelly of Minnesotan history folks don't like talking about. Odin2005 Dec 2014 #11

thank you for posting this. niyad Dec 2014 #14

Boreal

(725 posts)

1. Never knew about this

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Original post)

Sat Dec 27, 2014, 02:25 AM

Dec 2014

Such terrible history.

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)

2. Yep

Reply to Boreal (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 27, 2014, 02:32 AM

Dec 2014

But it's still amazing how many Americans are so blissfully unaware of our history.

Even Europeans are more aware of our history than most Americans.

Then we have outlets like Fox News which try their best to cover up that racist history.

Algernon Moncrieff

(5,781 posts)

3. Don't feel bad. I didn't know about this until about five years ago.

Reply to Boreal (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 27, 2014, 02:32 AM

Dec 2014

An amazingly high percentage of Americans don't know about this..or about the Wounded Knee massacre...or about "small pox blankets"... or about the abuse suffered in boarding schools. They know about Little Big Horn (aka Custer's Last Stand) and Pocahontas and maybe the trail of tears and some very twisted accounts of the first Thanksgiving.

That's part of why I like this ride. It's a great tool for educating.

Boreal

(725 posts)

5. History is huge

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 27, 2014, 02:55 AM

Dec 2014

In terms of the volume of information. I think most Americans are very aware of the brutally against the tribes but maybe not individual events unless they study the subject in depth.

I've know for a long time that the British caused mass starvation in India but never knew it was 30 million Indians until last night.

Colonizing entities (the real "Other&quot have caused so many atrocities you could probably spend your entire life learning about them. Of course, that would reach back into ancient history.

MrsMatt

(1,660 posts)

10. When I was growing up, this was covered in our Minnesota History classes

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 27, 2014, 10:25 AM

Dec 2014

in elementary.

I grew up less than 20 miles from Birch Coulee and Fort Ridgely. So this history was very local for me.

Odin2005

(53,521 posts)

12. I'm Minnesotan and it was barely meantioned in our state history textbooks.

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 27, 2014, 10:57 AM

Dec 2014

Jesus Malverde

(10,274 posts)

4. President Abraham Lincoln's legacy.

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Original post)

Sat Dec 27, 2014, 02:50 AM

Dec 2014

President Abraham Lincoln reviewed the trial records and commuted the death sentences of 264 prisoners but allowed the public execution by hanging of 38 men on Dec. 26, 1862, in Mankato.

Judi Lynn

(160,450 posts)

6. Thank for for posting this information. We should have learned about it long ago, in school.

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Original post)

Sat Dec 27, 2014, 02:56 AM

Dec 2014

Sad, sad way to treat people who had nowhere to hide from those who wanted them dead, and out of the way. Look how many were murdered. There wasn't anything justifiable about it whatsoever, no matter how many racist right-wingers pile on defending it.

bpollen

(110 posts)

7. This atrocity

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Original post)

Sat Dec 27, 2014, 03:09 AM

Dec 2014

is the biggest single black mark on the history of Minnesota. Not the only, but certainly the single most appalling.

Jesus Malverde

(10,274 posts)

8. wow it's even more disgusting

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Original post)

Sat Dec 27, 2014, 09:47 AM

Dec 2014

Before they were buried, an unknown person nicknamed “Dr. Sheardown” possibly removed some of the prisoners' skin. Small boxes purportedly containing the skin later were sold in Mankato.

Because of high demand for cadavers for anatomical study, several doctors wanted to obtain the bodies after the execution. The grave was reopened in the night and the bodies were distributed among the doctors, a practice common in the era. The doctor who received the body of Maȟpiya Akan Nažiŋ (Stands on Clouds), also known as "Cut Nose", was William Worrall Mayo.

Mayo brought the body of Maȟpiya Akan Nažiŋ to Le Sueur, Minnesota, where he dissected it in the presence of medical colleagues. Afterward, he had the skeleton cleaned, dried and varnished. Mayo kept it in an iron kettle in his home office. His sons received their first lessons in osteology from this skeleton In the late 20th century, the identifiable remains of Maȟpiya Akan Nažiŋ and other Native Americans were returned by the Mayo Clinic to a Dakota tribe for reburial per the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

one third of the other prisoners had died of disease.

To this end, a bounty of $25 per scalp was placed on any Dakota found free within the boundaries of the state

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_War_of_1862