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In August, 1862, the Sioux in Minnesota, which had been living in peaceful neighborly relations with the white colonists, rose to a desperate conflict, the largest and most costly Indian war on the Mississippi, with 600 to 800 human lives lost. Broken contracts, false correspondence, lies, and fraud triggered hunger, distress, and misery in the reservations. When the Indians stormed the warehouses of their agencies and emptied their anger against the innocent settlers, many of them Germans, central Minnesota was in flames. The war, carried on with terrible brutality, lasted five weeks. The military punishment affected all Minnesotan Indians, including those who had not been involved in the massacres. Thirty-eight Sioux were hanged—the greatest mass execution in American history.
Table of Contents
Vorwort
Die Sioux und die Siedler
Der Ausbruch des Krieges
Der Krieg beginnt: Angriff auf die Lower Agency
Die Schlacht von Redwood
Der Überfall am Beaver Creek
Der Überfall auf die Obere Agentur und indianisches Mitgefühl
Die Kämpfe von Fort Ridgely
Der Slaughter Swamp und Lavina Eastlick
Die Schlachten von New Ulm
Die Schlacht von Birch Coulee
Entscheidungsschlacht am Wood Lake
Freiheit in Camp Release
Die Gerichtsverfahren
Die Hinrichtungen
Der Tod Little Crows
Nachbemerkung
Bibliographie
Keywords
Sioux Indians, Sioux Wars – 1862, Minnesotan Indians, Sioux in Minnesota, American Indians
Language
German
ISBN
3-89510-104-4
Publication Date
2005
Rights
http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/
Copyright Status
© 2005 Verlag für Amerikanistik
College
Harold B. Lee Library
Department
History