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Post by mdenney on Mar 13, 2007 22:31:40 GMT -5
Freedomwriter.com :: Headline News :: - LARGEST MASS HANGING IN ... "Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the ... was 12 years and nine months old and was described as a half breed Indian girl. ...www.freedomwriter.com/issue34/am7.htm - link below- www.freedomwriter.com/issue34/am7.htmLARGEST MASS HANGING IN UNITED STATES HISTORY REPUBLICAN PARTY: "THE PARTY OF LINCOLN" Submitted by Charleston Voice Jan. 24, 2005 "Largest mass hanging in United States history" 38 Santee "Sioux" Indian men Mankato, Minnesota, Dec. 16, 1862 303 Indian males were set to be hanged What brought about the hanging of 38 Sioux Indians in Minnesota December 26, 1862 was the failure "again" of the U.S. Government to honor it's treaties with Indian Nations. Indians were not given the money or food set forth to them for signing a treaty to turn over more than a million acres of their land and be forced to live on a reservation. Indian agents keep the treaty money and food that was to go to the Indians, the food was sold to White settlers, food that was given to the Indians was spoiled and not fit for a dog to eat. Indian hunting parties went off the reservation land looking for food to feed their families, one hunting group took eggs from a White settlers land and the rest is history. Information below tells how President Lincoln and Minnesota Governor Alexander Ramsey set out to exterminate Indians from their home land. Authorities in Minnesota asked President Lincoln to order the immediate execution of all 303 Indian males found guilty. Lincoln was concerned with how this would play with the Europeans, whom he was afraid were about to enter the war on the side of the South. He offered the following compromise to the politicians of Minnesota: They would pare the list of those to be hung down to 39. In return, Lincoln promised to kill or remove every Indian from the state and provide Minnesota with 2 million dollars in federal funds. Remember, he only owed the Sioux 1.4 million for the land. So, on December 26, 1862, the Great Emancipator ordered the largest mass execution in American History, where the guilt of those to be executed was entirely in doubt. Regardless of how Lincoln defenders seek to play this, it was nothing more than murder to obtain the land of the Santee Sioux and to appease his political cronies in Minnesota. Scott Barta scott@1851Treaty.com 712-277-2235 Sioux City, Iowa It is expected that Lincoln be removed from his position as "hero" and relegated to a more appropriate position, to somewhere near the status of "Columbus" and "Hitler." We demand that Abe Lincoln's dishonest and shameful face be removed from the "occupied" and desecrated area called "Mount Rushmore" immediately. Abe Lincoln "honest" and "hero" No more (see online petition at: www.petitiononline.com/badabe/petition.html ) Text of Order to General Sibley, St. Paul Minnesota: "Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant, Captain Bailey, and Lieutenant Olin, and lately sitting in Minnesota, you cause to be executed on Friday the nineteenth day of December, instant, the following names, to wit [39 names listed by case number of record: cases 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 19, 22, 24, 35, 67, 68, 69, 70, 96, 115, 121, 138, 155, 170, 175, 178, 210, 225, 254, 264, 279, 318, 327, 333, 342, 359, 373, 377, 382, 383]. The other condemned prisoners you will hold subject to further orders, taking care that they neither escape, nor are subjected to any unlawful violence. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States" "On December 6 (1862) President Lincoln notified Sibley that he should "cause to be executed" thirty-nine of the 303 convicted Santees, Execution date was the 26th of December. At the last minute, one Indian was given a reprieve. About ten o'clock the thirty-eight condemned men were marched from the prison to the scaffold. They sang the Sioux death song until soldiers pulled white caps over their heads and placed nooses around their necks. At a signal from an army officer, the control rope was cut and thirty-eight Santee Sioux dangled lifeless in the air. A spectator boasted that this was "America's greatest" public execution." Dec 27 1862 (Saturday) SAINT PAUL, December 27, 1862. The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I have the honor to inform you that the thirty-eight Indians and half-breeds ordered by you for execution were hung yesterday at Mankato at 10 a.m. Everything went off quietly and the other prisoners are well secured. Respectfully, H. H. SIBLEY, Brigadier-General. The American Indian And The "Great Emancipator" "The Sioux Indians of Minnesota must be exterminated or driven forever beyond the borders of the state." Minnesota Governor Alexander Ramsey Bounties were placed on the scalps of Dakota people which eventually reached $200 Governor Alexander Ramsey had declared on September 9, 1862 that "The Sioux Indians of Minnesota must be exterminated or driven forever beyond the borders of the state." The treatment of Dakota people, including the hanging in Mankato and the forced removal of Dakota people from Minnesota, were the first phases of Ramsey's plan. His plan was further implemented when bounties were placed on the scalps of Dakota people which eventually reached $200. Punitive expeditions were then sent out over the next few years to hunt down those Dakota who had not surrendered and to ensure they would not return. After 38 of the condemned men were hanged the day after Christmas in 1862 in what remains the largest mass hanging in United States history, the other prisoners continued to suffer in the concentration camps through the winter of 1862-63. In late April of 1863 the remaining condemned men, along with the survivors of the Fort Snelling concentration camp, were forcibly removed from their beloved homeland in May of 1863. They were placed on boats which transported the men from Mankato to Davenport, Iowa where they were imprisoned for an additional three years. Those from Fort Snelling were shipped down the Mississippi River to St. Louis and then up the Missouri River to the Crow Creek Reservation in South Dakota. Dakota Commemorative March The youngest person hanged in America was Hannah Ocuish who was 12 years and nine months old and was described as a half breed Indian girl. She was executed on December 20th 1786 for the murder of a 6 year old girl whom she had beaten to death after an earlier argument. A memorial to the memory of the dead now stands in downtown Mankato in Reconciliation Park.
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Post by mdenney on Mar 12, 2011 1:34:17 GMT -5
Monday, December 1, 1862. Washington, DC. Abraham Lincoln President writes Judge Adv. Gen. Joseph Holt: "Three hundred Indians have been sentenced to death in Minnesota by a Military Commission, and execution only awaits my action. I wish your legal opinion whether if I should conclude to execute only a part of them, I must myself designate which." Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt, 1 December 1862, CW, 5:537-38. -------- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5.Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. To Joseph Holt [1] Executive Mansion, Washington, Judge Advocate General Dec. 1. 1862. Sir: Three hundred Indians have been sentenced to death in Minnesota by a Military Commission, and execution only awaits my action. I wish your legal opinion whether if I should conclude to execute only a part of them, I must myself designate which, or Page 538 could I leave the designation to some officer on the ground? Yours very truly A. LINCOLN Annotation [1] ALS-P, ISLA. See Lincoln's communication to John Pope, November 10, supra. Joseph Holt, who had been appointed judge advocate general as of September 3, 1862, replied to Lincoln's letter on December 1: ``I do not understand the precise form in which the question, referred to in your note of this morning, presents itself. If it be on an application to pardon the indians condemned, or a part of them, I am quite sure that the power cannot be delegated, and that the designation of the individuals, which its exercise involves, must necessarily be made by yourself. The designation of those upon whom the sentence is to be executed, is but the exercise of the same power, being merely an approval of the sentences and a refusal to pardon. I am not aware of any instance in which the delegation of this delicate and responsible trust, has been attempted. ``In view of the large amount of human life involved in these proceedings, would it not be well---if this step has not already been taken---to submit them to the Attorney General for the purpose of more satisfactorily determining the question of their regularity?'' (DLC-RTL). See further Lincoln letter to Henry H. Sibley, December 6, infra. www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A1127www.thelincolnlog.org/view/search?search%5Btext%5D=minnesota+indian&commit=GO&search%5Badvanced%5D=0&search%5Bstart%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bplace%5D=
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Post by mdenney on Mar 12, 2011 1:38:03 GMT -5
Abraham Lincoln Friday, December 5, 1862. Washington, DC President receives Senate resolution requesting "all information in his possession touching the late Indian barbarities in the State of Minnesota." Abraham Lincoln to Caleb B. Smith, 5 December 1862, CW, 5:540-41. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5.Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 To Caleb B. Smith [1] Hon. Sec. of Interior Executive Mansion, Sir: Washington, Dec. 5. 1862. Please have the Commissioner of Indian Affairs make out and send me as complete an answer to the enclosed Resolution of the Page 541Senate, as the means for so, doing, can be found in his Office. Yours very truly A. LINCOLN Annotation [1] ALS, MnHi. The resolution adopted by the Senate on December 5 requested the president to furnish ``all information in his possession touching the late Indian barbarities in the State of Minnesota. . . .'' See Lincoln's communication to the Senate, December 11, infra. www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A1134www.thelincolnlog.org/view/search?search%5Btext%5D=minnesota+indian&commit=GO&search%5Badvanced%5D=0&search%5Bstart%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bplace%5D=
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Post by mdenney on Mar 12, 2011 1:44:22 GMT -5
Abraham Lincoln Saturday, December 6, 1862. Washington, DC. Lincoln writes to General Henry H. Sibley, who heads a military commission that sentenced 303 Dakota Indians to death for killing military personnel and civilians in Minnesota. After evaluating the testimony, Lincoln recommended that only thirty-nine of the accused merited execution. On this day, Lincoln issues an order listing the names of the thirty-nine "Indians and Half-breeds . . . to be executed on Friday, the nineteenth day of December." Annual Message to Congress, www.thelincolnlog.org/view/1 December 1862, CW, 5:518-537; Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt, www.thelincolnlog.org/view/1 December 1862, CW, 5:537-538; Abraham Lincoln to Henry H. Sibley, www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A11376 December 1862, CW, 5:542-43. ============= Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5.Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 To Henry H. Sibley [1] Brigadier General H.H. Sibley Executive Mansion, St. Paul Washington, Minnesota. December 6th. 1862. Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the Military Commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant, Captain Bailey, and Lieutenant Olin, [2] and lately sitting in Minnesota, you cause to be executed on Friday the nineteenth day of December, instant, the following named, towit ``Te-he-hdo-ne-cha.'' No. 2. by the record. ``Tazoo'' alias ``Plan-doo-ta.'' No. 4. by the record. ``Wy-a-tah-to-wah'' No. 5 by the record. ``Hin-han-shoon-ko-yag.'' No. 6 by the record. ``Muz-za-bom-a-du.'' No. 10. by the record. ``Wah-pay-du-ta.'' No. 11. by the record. ``Wa-he-hud.'' No. 12. by the record. ``Sna-ma-ni.'' No. 14. by the record. ``Ta-te-mi-na.'' No. 15. by the record. ``Rda-in-yan-kna.'' No. 19. by the record. ``Do-wan-sa.'' No. 22. by the record. ``Ha-pan.'' No. 24. by the record. ``Shoon-ka-ska.'' (White Dog). No. 35. by the record. ``Toon-kan-e-chah-tay-mane.'' No. 67. by the record. ``E-tay-hoo-tay.'' No. 68. by the record. ``Am-da-cha.'' No. 69. by the record. ``Hay-pee-don---or, Wamne-omne-ho-ta.'' No. 70. by the record. ``Mahpe-o-ke-na-ji.'' No. 96. by the record. ``Henry Milord''---a Half-breed. No. 115. by the record. ``Chaskay-don''---or Chaskayetay.'' No. 121. by the record. ``Baptiste Campbell'' a Halfbreed. No. 138. by the record. ``Tah-ta-kay-gay.'' No. 155. by the record. ``Ha-pink-pa.'' No. 170 by the record. Page 543``Hypolite Ange'' a Half-breed. No. 175 by the record. ``Na-pay-Shue.'' No. 178. by the record. ``Wa-kan-tan-ka.'' No. 210. by the record. ``Toon-kan-ka-yag-e-na-jin.'' No. 225. by the record. ``Ma-kat-e-na-jin.'' No. 254. by the record. ``Pa-zee-koo-tay-ma-ne.'' No. 264. by the record. ``Ta-tay-hde-don.'' No. 279. by the record. ``Wa-She-choon,'' or ``Toon- kan-shkan-shkan-mene-hay.'' No. 318. by the record. ``A-e-cha-ga.'' No. 327. by the record. ``Ha-tan-in-koo.'' No. 333. by the record. ``Chay-ton-hoon-ka.'' No. 342. by the record. ``Chan-ka-hda.'' No. 359. by the record. ``Hda-hin-hday.'' No. 373. by the record. ``O-ya-tay-a-koo.'' No. 377. by the record. ``May-hoo-way-wa.'' No. 382. by the record. ``Wa-kin-yan-na.'' No. 383 by the record The other condemned prisoners you will hold subject to further orders, taking care that they neither escape, nor are subjected to any unlawful violence. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States. Annotation [1] ALS, MnHi. First governor of Minnesota, Henry H. Sibley had been appointed brigadier general on September 29 and placed in command of the District of Minnesota on November 23, 1862. For his reply to this letter see the note to Lincoln's telegram to Sibley, December 16, infra. [2] Members of the commission were: Colonel William Crooks of the Sixth Minnesota Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel William R. Marshall of the Seventh Minnesota Volunteers, Captain Hiram P. Grant and Captain Hiram S. Bailey of the Sixth Minnesota, and Captain Rollin C. Olin, assistant adjutant general on Sibley's staff. www.thelincolnlog.org/view/search?search%5Btext%5D=minnesota+indian&commit=GO&search%5Badvanced%5D=0&search%5Bstart%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bplace%5D=
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Post by mdenney on Mar 12, 2011 1:47:08 GMT -5
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Post by mdenney on Mar 12, 2011 1:53:51 GMT -5
Abraham Lincoln Thursday, December 11, 1862. Washington, DC. Transmits to Senate treaty with Republic of Liberia and information touching Indian barbarities in Minnesota. Abraham Lincoln to the Senate, www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A115311 December 1862, CW, 5:550; Abraham Lincoln to the Senate, www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A115411 December 1862, CW, 5:550-51. ------------- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5.Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. To the Senate [1] To the Senate of the United States December 11, 1862 I transmit to the Senate for its consideration with a view to ratification, a Treaty between the United States and the Republic of Liberia, signed at London by the Plenipotentiaries of the parties, on the twenty-first of October, last. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Washington, 11th. December, 1862. Annotation [1] DS, DNA RG 46, Senate 37B B9. The Senate ratified the treaty on January 9, 1863. ------------------ Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5.Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. To the Senate [2] To the Senate of the United States: December 11, 1862 In compliance with your resolution of December 5th, 1862, requesting the President ``to furnish the Senate with all information in his possession touching the late Indian barbarities in the State of Minnesota, and also the evidence in his possession upon which some of the principal actors and head men were tried and condemned to death,'' I have the honor to state, that on receipt of said resolution I transmitted the same to the Secretary of the Interior, accompanied by a note, a copy of which is herewith inclosed, marked ``A.,'' and in response to which I received, through that Department, a letter of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, a copy of which is herewith inclosed, marked ``B.'' I further state, that on the 8th. day of November last I received a long telegraphic dispatch from Major General Pope, at St. Paul, Minnesota, simply announcing the names of the persons sentenced Page 551 to be hanged. I immediately telegraphed to have transcripts of the records in all the cases forwarded to me, which transcripts, however, did not reach me until two or three days before the present meeting of Congress. Meantime I received, through telegraphic dispatches and otherwise, appeals in behalf of the condemned, appeals for their execution, and expressions of opinion as to proper policy in regard to them, and to the Indians generally in that vicinity, none of which, as I understand, falls within the scope of your inquiry. After the arrival of the transcripts of records, but before I had sufficient opportunity to examine them, I received a joint letter from one of the Senators and two of the Representatives from Minnesota, which contains some statements of fact not found in the records of the trials, and for which reason I herewith transmit a copy, marked ``C.'' I also, for the same reason, inclose a printed memorial of the citizens of St Paul, addressed to me, and forwarded with the letter aforesaid. Anxious to not act with so much clemency as to encourage another outbreak on the one hand, nor with so much severity as to be real cruelty on the other, I caused a careful examination of the records of trials to be made, in view of first ordering the execution of such as had been proved guilty of violating females. Contrary to my expectations, only two of this class were found. I then directed a further examination, and a classification of all who were proven to have participated in massacres, as distinguished from participation in battles. This class numbered forty, and included the two convicted of female violation. One of the number is strongly recommended by the Commission which tried them, for commutation to ten years' imprisonment. [2] FOOTNOTES}>(2) I have ordered the other thirty-nine to be executed on Friday, the 19th. instant. The order was dispatched from here on Monday, the 8th. instant, by a messenger to General Sibley; and a copy of which order is herewith transmitted, marked ``D.'' An abstract of the evidence as to the forty is herewith enclosed, marked ``E.'' To avoid the immense amount of copying, I lay before the Senate the original transcripts of the records of trials, as received by me. This is as full and complete a response to the resolution as it is in my power to make. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Annotation [1] DS, DNA RG 46, Senate 37A F2. Printed as Senate Executive Document No. 7, this communication is accompanied by the enclosures which Lincoln names. [2] O-Ta-kla, alias Godfrey, a Negro, recommended for ten years' imprisonment on the basis of the fact that he supplied information. www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A1154----------- www.thelincolnlog.org/view/search?search%5Btext%5D=minnesota+indian&commit=GO&search%5Badvanced%5D=0&search%5Bstart%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bplace%5D=
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Post by mdenney on Mar 12, 2011 1:58:39 GMT -5
Abraham Lincoln Tuesday, December 16, 1862. Washington, DC President approves change in date for execution of Minnesota Indians from December 19, 1862 to December 26, 1862. Abraham Lincoln to Henry H. Sibley, 16 December 1862, www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A11CW, 6:6-7. -------- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6.Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. To Henry H. Sibley [1] Brigadier General H. H. Sibley Executive Mansion, St. Paul, Minnesota. Washington, Dec. 16. 1862 As you suggest, let the executions fixed for Friday, the nineteenth (19th.) instant, be postponed to, and be done on, Friday the twentysixth (26th.) instant. A. LINCOLN Private Operator please send this very carefully and accurately. A. L. Annotation [1] ALS, RPB. On December 15 General Sibley replied to Lincoln's letter of December 6 supra as follows: ``Your order of 6th Inst. for the Execution of 39 Indians just recd by Special messenger They are imprisoned at Mankato 90 Page 7 miles distant & the time fixed 19th is too short for preparation & for concentrating the troops necessary to protect the other Indians & preserve the peace The excitement prevails all sections of the state & secret combinations Exist Embracing thousands of citizens pledged to execute all the Indians matters must be managed with great discretion & as much secrecy as possible to prevent a fearful collision between the U.S. forces & the citizens. I respectfully ask for authority to postpone the Execution one week from the 19th Inst if I deem necessary Please reply at once. Your directions of 9th relative to Chakaydon rec'd today by mail & will be obeyed.'' (DLC-RTL). The communication referred to in the last sentence of Sibley's despatch has not been located. On December 27, Sibley telegraphed as follows: ``I have the honor to inform you that the 38 Indians and half-breeds ordered by you for execution were hung yesterday at Mankato, at 10 a.m. Everything went off quietly, and the other prisoners are well secured.'' (OR, I, XXII, I, 880). One of the thirty-nine listed in Lincoln's communication to Sibley, December 6, supra, ``Chaska-don'' or ``Chaskay-etay,'' alias Robert Hopkins, was not executed. On August 18, 1864, Lincoln endorsed a petition for Hopkins ``Pardons [sic]. A. LINCOLN'' (DNA WR RG 153, Judge Advocate General, NN 2323). www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A11============= www.thelincolnlog.org/view/search?search%5Btext%5D=minnesota+indian&commit=GO&search%5Badvanced%5D=0&search%5Bstart%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bplace%5D=
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Post by mdenney on Mar 12, 2011 2:03:50 GMT -5
Abraham Lincoln Friday, February 13, 1863. Washington, DC. President communicates to House of Representatives all information in Dept. of Interior respecting causes of recent outbreaks of Indian tribes in Northwest. Abraham Lincoln to Galusha A. Grow, www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A21013 February 1863, CW, 6:104. ---------------- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6.Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. To Galusha A. Grow [1] Washington, February 13, 1863. Sir: I herewith communicate to the House of Representatives, in answer to their resolution of the 18th of December last, a report from the Secretary of the Interior, containing all the information in the possession of the department respecting the causes of the recent outbreaks of the Indian tribes in the north-west, which has not heretofore been transmitted to Congress. Hon. Galusha A. Grow, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Speaker of the House of Representatives. Annotation [1] Thirty-seventh Congress, Third Session, House of Representatives Executive Document, No. 68. Secretary Usher's report, concluding that the ``real cause of outbreak is difficult, if not impossible, to determine,'' may be found in the same source. www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A210----------------------------------- www.thelincolnlog.org/view/search?search%5Btext%5D=minnesota+indian&commit=GO&search%5Badvanced%5D=0&search%5Bstart%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bplace%5D=
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Post by mdenney on Mar 12, 2011 2:21:19 GMT -5
Abraham Lincoln Saturday, April 30, 1864. Washington, DC. President Lincoln "pardon " and frees twenty-five "Indian prisoners now in confinement at Camp McClellan near Davenport Iowa." The men represent a portion of the Indians who have been confined since November 1862, as a result of the August 1862 Dakota uprising. Missionary Thomas S. Williamson and Special Commissioner to the Indians George E. H. Day wrote to Lincoln and urged him to release the prisoners. Day wrote, "n the name of humanity beg that you will . . . order them released and sent to take care of their starving families now perishing for want of food." Thomas S. Williamson to Abraham Lincoln, 27 April 1864; William P. Dole to Abraham Lincoln, 28 April 1864, both in Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Order for Pardon of Sioux Indians, 30 April 1864, CW, 7:325-26. www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A722
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Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7.Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Order for Pardon of Sioux Indians [1] April 30, 1864 List of Indian prisoners now in confinement at Camp McClellan near Davenport Iowa pardoned and to be liberated and sent to their families
Tapeta Tanka Wiyaka Tunkanhuamani
Tahohpi wakan Kimyan hiotan Boyaya
Wakanhotito Oye Muza Iyasamani
Tate sica Cinkpa tawa Icawtuze
Wiyuha Tunkan Canholiska Manikiya
Tunkan Oyate yanka Wakan inapedan alias Ahotonna
Pantaninniye Muza kiyemani Maza adidi
Contidoka duta Kalpantpan ku Tate Ibomdu
Kimyan hiyaya Tahokaye
Page 326The persons named on this list are pardoned and ordered to be sent to their families or relatives. A. LINCOLN
April 30, 1864
Annotation [1] D and AES-P, ISLA. Lincoln's endorsement is written in the right-hand margin of the single page containing the list. A copy of the list preserved in the Lincoln Papers contains Lincoln's endorsement ``Pardoned to-day, April 30, 1864.'' (DLC-RTL). Reverend Thomas S. Williamson, missionary to the Sioux, had written to Lincoln on April 27, assigning reasons for pardoning the Sioux imprisoned at Davenport, Iowa, since November, 1862, under sentence of death. Lincoln submitted the letter to William P. Dole, who answered on April 28: ``I have read the letter of the Rev. Mr Williamson to you asking the pardon of certain Indians now under the sentence of death at Davenport and wish to say . . . that I do not believe any injury will accrue to the white people if you should exercise the pardoning power in favour of a portion of these people and I have so much confidence in . . . Mr. Williamson that I have no hesitancy in uniting in his recommendation in favor of the particular persons named by him. . . .'' (DLC-RTL).
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Post by mdenney on May 18, 2011 21:02:57 GMT -5
This is from the book called -
Indian outbreaks (1904) By DANIEL BUCK Ex-Judge of the Supreme Court of Minnesota. ILLUSTRATED MANKATO, MINN 1904.
NAMES OF THE CONDEMNED. The following are the Indian names of the condemned prisoners ; also, the meaning of each, as translated by Rev. S. R. Riggs:
254 INDIAN OUTBREAKS. Dakota. English. Te-he-do-ne-cha ....................................."One Who Forbids His House"' Ptan-doo-ta, or Ta-Joo............................."Red Otter" Wy-a-tah-ta-wa ......................................"His People"' Hin-han-shoon-ko-yag-ma-ne ................."One Who Walks Clothed in an Owl's Tail" Ma-ya-boom-doo ....................................."Iron Blower" Wan-pa-doo-ta ......................................."Red Leaf" Wa-he-kna............................................... Meaning unknown Qwa-ma-ne ............................................."Tinkling Walker" Ta-tay-me-ma..........................................."Round Wind" Rda-in-yan-ka..........................................."Rattling Runner" Do-wan-sa ..............................................."The Singer" Ha-pan......................................................"Second Child" (if a son) Shoon-ka-ska ..........................................."White Dog" Toon-kan-e-chah-tag-ma-ne....................."One Who Walks by His Grandfather" E-tay-doo-ta ............................................."Red Face" Am-da-cha ................................................"Broken to Pieces" Hay-pe-dan .............................................."The Third Child" (if a son) Mah-pe-o-ke-ne-jin .................................."Who Stands on a Cloud" Henry Milord ............................................A halfbreed Chas-ka-dan ............................................"The First Born" (if a son) Baptiste Campbell..................................... A halfbreed Ta-tay ka-gay ..........................................."Wind Maker" Hay-pin-kpa..............................................."The Tip of the Horn" Hypolita Ange ............................................A halfbreed Na-pay-skin .............................................."One Who Does Not Flee" Wa-kan-tan-ka ........................................."Great Spirit" Toon-kan-ko-yag-e-na-jin ........................"One Who Stands Clothed with His Grandfather" Ma-ka-ta-e-na-jin ....................................."One Who Stands on the Earth" Pa-za-koo-tay-wa-nee ............................."One Who Walks Prepared to Shoot" To-tay-hde-dan ........................................"Wind Comes Home" Wa-she-choon ........................................"Frenchman" A-e-che-ga ..............................................."To Grow Upon" Ho-tan-in-koo ..........................................."Voice That Appears Coming" Chay-tan-hoon-ka....................................."The Parent Hawk" Chan-ka-hda ............................................"Near the Wood" Hda-hin-hday ..........................................."To Make a Rattling Noise Suddenly" O-ya-tay-a-koo ........................................"The Coming People" Ma-hoo-way-wa ......................................."He Comes For Me" Wa-kin-yan-ne ........................................."Little Thunder"
CONFESSIONS OF THE CONDEMNED.
i. Te-he-do-ne-cha ("One Who Forbids His House") said he was asleep when the outbreak took place at the lower agency. He was not present at the breaking open of the stores, but afterwards went over the Minnesota river and took some women captives. The men who were killed there, he said, were killed by other Indians, whom he named. 2. Ptan-doo-ta, alias Ta-joo ("Red Otter") said he had very sore eyes at the time of the outbreak, and was at that time down opposite Fort Ridgely. He was with the party that killed Patwell and others. Ma-ya-bon-doo killed Patwell. He took Miss Williams captive; says he would have violated the women, but they resisted. He thinks he did a good deed in saving the women alive. 3. Wy-a-tah-ta-wa ("His People") said he was at the attack on Captain Marsh's company, and also at New Ulm. He and another Indian shot at a man at the same time. He does not know whether he or the other Indian killed the white man. He was wounded in following up another white man. He was at the battle of Birch Coulee, where he fired his gun. He fired twice at Wood Lake. 4. Hin-han-shoon-ko-yag-ma-ne ("One Who Walks Clothed in an Owl's Tail") says he is charged with killing white people, and so condemmed. He did not know certainly that he killed any one. He was in all the battles. That is all he has to say. 5. Ma-za-boom-doo ("Iron Blower") says he was down on the Big Cottonwood when the outbreak took place ; that he came that day into New Ulm, and purchased various articles, and then started home. He met the Indians coming down; saw some in wagons shot, but does not know who killed them. He was present at the killing of Patwell and others, but denies having done it himself. He thinks he did well by Mattie Williams and Mary Swan, in keeping them from being killed. They now live and he has to die, which he thinks is not quite fair. 6. Wa-pa-doo-ta ("Red Leaf") is an old man. He says he was moving when he heard of the outbreak. He saw some men after they were killed about the agency, but did not kill anyone there. He started down to the fort, and went on to the New Ulm settlement. There he shot at a man through a window, but does not think he killed him. He was himself wounded at New Ulm. 7. Wa-he-hua (Do not know what his name means) says that he did not kill anyone ; if he had believed he had killed a white man he would have fled with Little Crow. The witnesses lied on him. 8. Qua-ma-ne ("Tinkling Walker") says he was condemned on the testimony of two German boys. They say he killed two persons. The boys told lies; he was not at that place at all. 9. Ta-tah-me-na ("Round Wind") is a brother-in-law of the former well-known Mr. Joseph Renville. He was the public crier for Little Crow before and during the outbreak. After the battle of Wood Lake he came over to the opposition, and was the crier at Camp Release when the captives were delivered up. He was condemned on the testimony of two German boys, who said they saw him kill their mother. The old man denies the charge; says he was not across the river at that time, and that he was unjustly condemned. He is the only one of the thirtynine who has been at all in the habit of attending Protestant worship. On last Sabbath he requested Dr. Williamson to baptize him, professing repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, which was done on Monday, before he knew that he was among those to be hung at this time. May God have mercy on his soul! 10. Rda-in-yan-ka ("Rattling Runner") says he did not know of the uprising on Monday, the 18th of August, until they had killed a number of men. He went out and met Little Crow, and tried to stop the murders, but could not. The next day his son was brought home wounded from Fort Ridgely. He forbade the delivering up of the white captives to Paul when he demanded them, and he supposes he is to be hung for that. 11. Do-wan-sa ("The Singer") says he was one of the six who were down in the Swan Lake neighborhood. He knows that they killed two men and two women, but this was done by the rest of the party, and not by himself. 12. Ha-pan ("Second Child"—if a son) says he was not in the massacres of New Ulm nor the agency. He was with the company who killed Patwell and his companions. He took one of the women. O-ya-tay-wa killed Patwell. 13. Shoon-ka-ska ("White Dog") says that when the outbreak took place he ran away, and did not get any of the stolen property. At the ferry he talked with Quinn; iirst called to them to come over, but when he saw that the Indians were in ambush he beckoned to Captain Marsh to stay back. He says that his position and conduct at the ferry were misunderstood and misrepresented; that he 17 wanted peace, and did not command the Indians to fire on Captain Marsh's men; that another man should be put to death for that. He complains bitterly that he did not have a chance to tell the things as they were ; that he could not have an opportunity of refuting the false testimony brought against him. He says that they all expected to have another trial—that they were promised it ; that they have done great wrong to the white people, and do not refuse to die, but they think it hard that they did not have a fairer trial ; that they want the President to know this. 14. Toon-kan-e-chah-tag-ma-ne ("One Who Walks by His Grandfather") says he took nothing from the stores except a blanket. He was at Fort Ridgely, but killed nobody. He is charged with killing white persons in a wagon, but he did not ; they were killed by another man. 15. Etag-doo-ta ("Red Face") says he was woke up in the morning of Monday, the 18th of August, and went with others, but he did not kill anybody. 16. Am-da-cha ("Broken to Pieces") says that he was doctoring a girl when he learned about the outbreak at the lower agency. He went with others, and took some things from Mr. Forbes' store. He fired his gun only twice, but thinks he did not kill anyone. 17. Hay-pe-dan ("The Third Child"—if a son) says he was not at the stores until all was over there. He was with Wabasha, and with him opposed the outbreak. He was afterwards driven into it by being called a coward. He went across the Minnesota river and took two horses, and afterwards captured a woman and two children. He tried to keep a white man from being killed, but could not. He was at the ferry when Marsh's men were killed, but had only a bow and arrows there. He was in three battles, and shot six times, but does not know that he killed anyone. 18. Mah-pe-o-ke-ne-jin ("Who Stands on the Cloud") Cut Nose says that when Little Crow proposed to kill the traders he went along. He says he is charged with having killed a carpenter, but he did not do it. He fired off his gun in one of the stores. His nephew was killed at Fort Ridgely. He was out at Hutchinson when his son was killed. Little Crow took them out. He was hungry and went over to an ox. When there he saved Mr. Brown's family. 19. Henry Milord (a halfbreed) : Henry says he went over the Minnesota river with Baptiste Campbell and others. They were forced to go by Little Crow. He fired his gun at a woman, but does not think he killed her. Several others fired at her, also. He did not see her afterwards. Henry Milord was raised by General Sibley; he is a smart, active, intelligent young man, and as such would be likely to be drawn into the Dakota rebellion; indeed, it was next to impossible for young men, whether halfbreeds or full bloods, to keep out of it. They are to be pitied as well as blamed. 20. Chas-kay-dan ("The First Born"—if a son) says he went to the stores in the morning of Monday. Then he saw Little Crow taking away goods. He then went up to Red Wood with a relation of his. They were told that a white man was coming on the road. They went out to meet him, but the first who came along was a halfbreed. They let him pass. Then came along Mrs. Wakefield and Mr. Gleason. His friend shot Mr. Gleason, and he attempted to fire on him, but his gun did not go off. He saved Mrs. Wakefield and the children, and now he dies while she lives. 21. Baptiste Campbell is the son of Scott Campbell, who was for many years United States interpreter at Fort Snelling. He thinks that they ought to have had a new trial ; says he did not speak advisedly when before the military commission. He went over the Minnesota river with four others. They were sent over by Little Crow, and
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