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Author : David Allen Nichols
Release : 2012
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 764/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lincoln and the Indians by : David Allen Nichols
Download or read book Lincoln and the Indians written by David Allen Nichols. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With a new preface by the author"--P. [1] of cover.
Author : Michael S. Green
Release : 2021-09-03
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 254/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lincoln and Native Americans by : Michael S. Green
Download or read book Lincoln and Native Americans written by Michael S. Green. This book was released on 2021-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book traces Lincoln's family history, his early years, and how they shaped--and may have shaped--his attitudes toward Native Americans"--
Author : Kenneth Lincoln
Release : 1985-12-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 578/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Native American Renaissance by : Kenneth Lincoln
Download or read book Native American Renaissance written by Kenneth Lincoln. This book was released on 1985-12-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lincoln presents the writing of today's most gifted Native American authors, against an ethnographic background which should enable a growing number of readers to share his enthusiasm. Lincoln has lived with American Indians, knows them, and is respected by them; all this enhances his book.
Author : Scott W. Berg
Release : 2013-09-10
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 138/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis 38 Nooses by : Scott W. Berg
Download or read book 38 Nooses written by Scott W. Berg. This book was released on 2013-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year In August 1862, after suffering decades of hardship, broken treaties, and relentless encroachment on their land, the Dakota leader Little Crow reluctantly agreed that his people must go to war. After six weeks of fighting, the uprising was smashed, thousands of Indians were taken prisoner by the US army, and 303 Dakotas were sentenced to death. President Lincoln, embroiled in the most devastating period of the Civil War, personally intervened to save the lives of 265 of the condemned men, but in the end, 38 Dakota men would be hanged in the largest government-sanctioned execution in U.S. history. Writing with uncommon immediacy and insight, Scott W. Berg details these events within the larger context of the Civil War, the history of the Dakota people and the subsequent United States–Indian wars, and brings to life this overlooked but seminal moment in American history.
Author : Hank H. Cox
Release : 2005
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 575/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lincoln and the Sioux Uprising of 1862 by : Hank H. Cox
Download or read book Lincoln and the Sioux Uprising of 1862 written by Hank H. Cox. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On the bright Sunday morning of August 17, 1862, four Sioux warriors emerged from the Big Woods northwest of St. Paul, Minnesota, on their way home from an unsuccessful hunt. When they came upon the homestead of Robinson Jones, a white man who ran a post office and general store and offered lodging for travelers, the Indians opened fire on the settlers, killing almost all of them. Soon bands of Sioux were rampaging across southwestern Minnesota, attacking farms and trading posts and murdering everywhere they went to splitting the skulls of men; clubbing children to death; raping daughters and wives before disemboweling them; cutting off hands, breasts, and genitals; and looting whatever could be taken before setting fire to what remained. Perhaps as many as two thousand settlers were brutally massacred, although the number has never been firmly established. Once the uprising was suppressed, 303 Sioux warriors were sentenced to death. The people of Minnesota called for their immediate execution, a sentiment that matched the national mood. Abraham Lincoln suspected that most of those convicted were marginal players in the rebellion and that the worst culprits had escaped, and he carefully reviewed each case before selecting 38 men to hang whom he believed to be guilty of the worst crimes. The remainder were committed to life in prison. "I could not hang men for votes," he later explained. On December 26, the 38 were simultaneously hanged on a gallows construction especially for them. The Sioux Uprising of 1862, also known as the Dakota War, sounded the first shots of a war that continued for another 28 years, culminating in the massacre of Indian women and children at Wounded Knee in 1890. Lincoln's death at the hands of John Wilkes Booth ended his intention to reform the government's Indian policy, and both political parties continued to use the system to reward their supporters, a practice that largely continues to this day."--Amazon.
