Mass Hanging of Dakota Sioux in Mankato, Minnesota

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Joshua J. Mark
by Library of Congress
published on 30 January 2025
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Execution of the thirty-eight Sioux Indians at Mankato Minnesota, December 25, 1862. Print by Buffalo: Hayes Litho. Co., c. 1883.

President Abraham Lincoln ordered the mass execution of 38 Native Americans in Minnesota for revolt against the government in 1862.

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