RARE Civil War Print Execution of the 38 Sioux Indians At Mankato Minnesota

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RARE Civil War Print Execution of the 38 Sioux Indians At Mankato Minnesota:
$195.00

Offered is a rare print Execution of the Thirty-Eight Sioux Indians At Mankato Minnesota December 26, 1862. Hayes Litho Co. Buffalo / 1883, 18 x 13.5 inches. The print has water markings in the right corner not affecting the colors, repaired tare near center bottom and there is yellowing throughout. All can be restored. This is a very very rare Civil War era print.

This lithograph depicts the largest mass execution in the United States of America, when 38 Santee Sioux Indian men were executed around 10 a.m., the condemned singing and chanting Dakota songs on their way to the scaffolds. The moment of execution was signaled by three drum beats, the rope was cut, and the floors fell open. The crowd of people cheered while watching the execution. Afterwards, all bodies of the Indian men were buried in a single grave on the edge of town. By 1862, Dakota tribes had surrendered 28 million acres of land to the Federal Government, based upon treaties which moved the Dakota tribes to small Minnesota reservations and promised them compensation in the form of goods and regular annuity payments. In the summer of 1862, members of the tribes were starving on account of late annuity payments and corrupt government trading practices. In August 1862, following the murder of five whites by four natives, a council met at Little Crow\'s village and agreed to attack white settlements and drive the inhabitants from Minnesota. After repeated requests to the President, the United States sent two regiments to quell the violence. Military tribunals tried over three hundred natives. General John Pope and many of the citizens of Minnesota appealed to the president to have all 303 captives executed. Abraham Lincoln approved the execution of 38 prisoners (one was later pardoned), shortening the list to the names of Indian soldiers accused to killing civilians.

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