The Traumatic True History and Name List of the Dakota 38
by Vincent Shilling Dec 27, 2017
The Dakota 38 execution was the largest mass execution in the United States and took place on December 26, 1862.
On the day after Christmas in 1862, 38 Dakota men were hanged under order of President Abraham Lincoln. The hangings and convictions of the Dakota 38 resulted from the aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 in southwest Minnesota.
In addition to the 38 men hanged the day after Christmas, there were terrible injustices committed against 265 others in the form of military convictions and inhuman injustices to more than 3,000 Dakota people who were held captive, then forced to march west out of Minnesota.
How It All Started
The conflict erupted when treaties restricted the lands of the Dakota people to an area that could no longer sustain them. Promised compensations were slow or non-existent and the Dakota people feared starvation heading into a brutal Minnesota winter.
The Dakota also faced terrible racism, one white settler historically quoting, Let them eat grass.
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