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niyad

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16. I was just reading the section on the war at the UMN Holocaust and Genocide

Tue Dec 26, 2023, 12:13 PM

Dec 2023

Studies (CLA College of Liberal Arts), and it is even more horrible than the wiki article (and thank you for posting that) portrays. My pos computer will not allow me to link, or copy and paste, or I would. One of the triggering factors in this horror was the US government's failure (Civil War being the excuse) to make the payments stipulated in treaties. The Dakota were starving. In the aftermath, over 1,600 people were held in an internment camp, where hundreds died of exposure and starvation.

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161 years ago today, the largest mass execution in U.S. history took place, ordered by A. Lincoln [View all] WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2023 OP

Important OP malaise Dec 2023 #1

You can say that again! FM123 Dec 2023 #2

Look up the US Dakota war elias7 Dec 2023 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author JohnSJ Dec 2023 #6

I looked it up and your numbers are off. Also, the native Americans attacked because they were being ethnically Celerity Dec 2023 #11

You mean like the folks in malaise Dec 2023 #13

No, just pointing out that things are not the black and white simplicity initially posted elias7 Dec 2023 #22

So, yeah, one genocide for the 'good if the nation' deserves another. TeamProg Dec 2023 #38

'Thank you' for informing us of this awful piece of U.S. history. elleng Dec 2023 #14

I was just reading the section on the war at the UMN Holocaust and Genocide niyad Dec 2023 #16

Thanks for additional history, I had just copied and pasted from a quick search elias7 Dec 2023 #21

fair enough Celerity Dec 2023 #27

still, there's no doubt that native Americans committed horrible acts of terrorism on white settlers LymphocyteLover Dec 2023 #39

The whites invaded the natives' lands and committed monumental amounts of ethnic cleansing and genocide for Celerity Dec 2023 #40

that doesn't change the fact that native Americans terrorized white communities and committed horrible LymphocyteLover Dec 2023 #42

Native Americans were, on balance, decimated, genocided, and ethnically cleansed. Celerity Dec 2023 #43

We actually did look it up, and it was even more horrible than niyad Dec 2023 #18

History we never learned in school. multigraincracker Dec 2023 #3

The history most of us learned in school was far different. sop Dec 2023 #17

True. LeftInTX Dec 2023 #25

I recall in school that the WWII Japanese internment camps during the FDR presidency were barely mentioned in passing. MichMan Dec 2023 #28

Yes, that too. I don't remember learning about it. However, Auschwitz was required reading in our HS. LeftInTX Dec 2023 #32

The spotlight of history. The further back in time the more light is needed. erronis Dec 2023 #29

thank you, and this is the information that the rs would just love to bury. ie coverup. AllaN01Bear Dec 2023 #4

What Delphinus Dec 2023 #7

We were taught this in 6th grade sarisataka Dec 2023 #8

Yeah, I remember learning about this in high school. Elessar Zappa Dec 2023 #9

303 Dakota men were sentenced to death Martin Eden Dec 2023 #10

I was gonna say this as well ITAL Dec 2023 #23

Thanks for the information. Butterflylady Dec 2023 #12

I'm not sure "catching up" is the right phrase... Happy Hoosier Dec 2023 #15

Or from the 20th and 21st centuries people Dec 2023 #19

And probably as many more centuries as we live. erronis Dec 2023 #30

A Good Read Puppyjive Dec 2023 #20

Lincoln's statements in ordering the executions (via Wikipedia): rapists first, then those who massacred civilians andym Dec 2023 #24

Read Over the Earth I Come by Duane Schultz Sneederbunk Dec 2023 #26

Next read about wounded knee isitreal Dec 2023 #31

It is important that ALL of history be taught, no matter how painful it might be. So maybe it may never happen again. Evolve Dammit Dec 2023 #33

Lincoln wasn't perfect COL Mustard Dec 2023 #34

Free school lunches. National Health Care. Reproductive Freedom. Voting rights. gulliver Dec 2023 #35

The extrajudicial execution of 300 Lakota Ghost Dancers TexLaProgressive Dec 2023 #36

Wow, history needs to be truth, and not just feel goods. Bluethroughu Dec 2023 #37

Recommend, "Six Encounters with Lincoln" - Elizabeth Brown Pryor bucolic_frolic Dec 2023 #41