Sioux Indian Nation Quotes
In 1862 after a Sioux uprising, a U. S. military commission condemned 303 Indians to death. The President personally reviewed the records of each case and pardoned most. On December 26, 1862 the largest public execution in American history took place with 38 Indians hanged. Lincoln's decision to commute most of the sentences was not politically popular and in the 1864 election the Republican vote margin in Minnesota was smaller than before. Minnesota Senator Alexander Ramsey told Lincoln that he should have hanged more Indians and obtained a bigger majority.
Over the years Sherman’s advocacy of Indian extermination went beyond the Sioux to all Indians.
Large wagon trains of settlers crossed the content on their way to the Oregon Territory. The Sioux Indians whose land the wagon trains had to pass through often attacked the wagon trains in a vain effort to discourage others from passing through the area. The Sioux believed that the large wagon trains frightened the buffalo away, which was probably not a significant factor in the diminishing of the buffalo herds. The Indians and white hunters both over-hunted the buffalo which became few in numbers. With modern wildlife management Buffalo are not only back but are plentiful and being raised for their lean meat which has become a delicacy.
They stopped and a massacre was averted.
if trade between the British and the Sioux were terminated The essential difference between the British and American interests were that the Hudson Bay Company—the English authority in Canada—was generally interested in short term commercial profits from trading including guns and alcohol while the Americans wanted pacification so that the Westward expansion and growth of the country could move forward. To the Americans at the time, it was a forgone conclusion that the few Indians would have to share their land with the more numerous whites. The different between doves and hawks at the time was how. The hawks wanted to simply drive the Indians out. The doves like Meriwether wanted to develop a trading dependency on America for modern goods. Therefore, the problem boiled down to making America the sole supplier of most goods. The strategy did not work as the bloody history of relations with the Sioux will attest.
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In 1862 after a Sioux uprising, a U. S. military commission condemned 303 Indians to death. President Lincoln wanted to delegate reviewing the sentences for possible pardon. The President personally reviewed the records of each case and pardoned most. On December 26, 1862 the largest public execution in American history took place with 38 Indians hanged.
