The Largest Execution in US History in Mankato Minnesota 1862

 

The following video and story was passed down to me by Tom Shaw from History Delights. The story is a forgotten chapter in the history of the central United States. As the civil war was raging, the government was attempting to continue to manage the affairs of native American Indians west of the Mississippi river. Though I theorize that the governments instability at the time made the affairs of the frontier Indians a lower priority, as violence broke out due to hunger, after food promised to the Dakotas never arrived, which resulted in an eruption of violence and bloodshed.