Post by mdenney on Apr 22, 2011 14:46:40 GMT -5
LETTER FROM GENERAL POPE DECLARING HIS GOAL
OF EXTERMINATING SIOUX
The horrible massacres of women and children and the outrageous abuse of female prisoners, still alive, call for punishment beyond human power to inflict. There will be no peace in this region by virtue of treaties and Indian faith. It is my purpose utterly to exterminate the Sioux if I have the power to do so and even if it requires a campaign lasting the whole of next year. Destroy everything belonging to them and force them out to the plains, unless, as I suggest, you can capture them. They are to be treated as maniacs or wild beasts, and by no means as people with whom treaties or compromises can be made.
(Letter to Sibley, Sept. 28,1862)
law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/dakota/Dakota_excerpts.html
OF EXTERMINATING SIOUX
The horrible massacres of women and children and the outrageous abuse of female prisoners, still alive, call for punishment beyond human power to inflict. There will be no peace in this region by virtue of treaties and Indian faith. It is my purpose utterly to exterminate the Sioux if I have the power to do so and even if it requires a campaign lasting the whole of next year. Destroy everything belonging to them and force them out to the plains, unless, as I suggest, you can capture them. They are to be treated as maniacs or wild beasts, and by no means as people with whom treaties or compromises can be made.
(Letter to Sibley, Sept. 28,1862)
law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/dakota/Dakota_excerpts.html
