A Native American Instrumental Acoustic/Electric Folk Tribute. A Long Overdue Tribute To The Indigenous People Of America & Their Continuing Struggles! This Song Is Especially Dedicated To The 38 Dakota Chiefs & Warriors Hanged Together, December 26, 1862 & Two Others Hanged Separately 2 Years Later! All approved by Abraham Lincoln...Guess they didn't want to put that in his recent movie:/
Joe Aloisa ~ All Guitars
Rich Russom ~ All Drum Programing & Keyboards
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Dakota War of 1862 ~ A Ride To Remember ~ December 26, 2013
http://www.winonadakotaunityalliance.org/1862exhibit/10_BITTER_END.pdf
A newly passed federal statute mandated that the President of the United States approve all executions. Abraham Lincoln deliberated the individual cases for just under a month and then decreased the number of Dakota to be hanged to 39. Lincoln issued orders to execute these Dakota on December 6, 1862. One of the cases was stayed due to new evidence, which lowered the final number of Dakota to be hanged to 38. Prisoners were not told of the executions until December 16. On December 24, 1862, the 38 Dakota, who were sentenced to be hanged, were allowed to meet with their families for the last time. On the morning of December 26, 1862, in Mankato, the 38 prisoners were hung in front of an audience of over 3,000, in a town with a population of only 200 people.
“[Tell our friends that we are being removed from this world over the same path they must shortly travel. We go 1st, but many of our friends may follow us in a very short time. I expect to go direct to the abode of the Great Spirit, and to be happy when I get there; but we are told that the road is long and the distance great; therefore, as I am slow in my movements, it will probably take me a long time to reach the end of the journey, and I should not be surprised if some of the young, active men we will leave behind us will pass me on the road before I reach the place of my destination” ~Statement of Ptan-doo-tah (one of the 38 Dakota hung) at the time of his execution sentence, Dec.24,1862.
Execution of the Thirty-Eight Sioux Indians at Mankato, Minnesota. December 26,1862. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by John C.Wise in the Office of Librarian of Congress at Washington. Hayes Litho Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
December 26, 1862: thirty-eight Dakota Indians were hanged in Mankato, Minnesota, in the largest mass execution in US history–on orders of President
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