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Algernon Moncrieff

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3. Don't feel bad. I didn't know about this until about five years ago.

Sat Dec 27, 2014, 02:32 AM

Dec 2014

An amazingly high percentage of Americans don't know about this..or about the Wounded Knee massacre...or about "small pox blankets"... or about the abuse suffered in boarding schools. They know about Little Big Horn (aka Custer's Last Stand) and Pocahontas and maybe the trail of tears and some very twisted accounts of the first Thanksgiving.

That's part of why I like this ride. It's a great tool for educating.

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330-mile ride in South Dakota and Minnesota remembers hangings of Dakota Indians in 1862 [View all] Algernon Moncrieff Dec 2014 OP

Never knew about this Boreal Dec 2014 #1

Yep Cali_Democrat Dec 2014 #2

Don't feel bad. I didn't know about this until about five years ago. Algernon Moncrieff Dec 2014 #3

History is huge Boreal Dec 2014 #5

When I was growing up, this was covered in our Minnesota History classes MrsMatt Dec 2014 #10

I'm Minnesotan and it was barely meantioned in our state history textbooks. Odin2005 Dec 2014 #12

President Abraham Lincoln's legacy. Jesus Malverde Dec 2014 #4

Thank for for posting this information. We should have learned about it long ago, in school. Judi Lynn Dec 2014 #6

This atrocity bpollen Dec 2014 #7

wow it's even more disgusting Jesus Malverde Dec 2014 #8

Very bad, indeed Algernon Moncrieff Dec 2014 #13

k and r dembotoz Dec 2014 #9

This is the dark underbelly of Minnesotan history folks don't like talking about. Odin2005 Dec 2014 #11

thank you for posting this. niyad Dec 2014 #14