330-mile ride in South Dakota and Minnesota remembers hangings of Dakota Indians in 1862

[Jesus Malverde]

8. wow it's even more disgusting

Before they were buried, an unknown person nicknamed “Dr. Sheardown” possibly removed some of the prisoners' skin. Small boxes purportedly containing the skin later were sold in Mankato.

Because of high demand for cadavers for anatomical study, several doctors wanted to obtain the bodies after the execution. The grave was reopened in the night and the bodies were distributed among the doctors, a practice common in the era. The doctor who received the body of Maȟpiya Akan Nažiŋ (Stands on Clouds), also known as "Cut Nose", was William Worrall Mayo.

Mayo brought the body of Maȟpiya Akan Nažiŋ to Le Sueur, Minnesota, where he dissected it in the presence of medical colleagues. Afterward, he had the skeleton cleaned, dried and varnished. Mayo kept it in an iron kettle in his home office. His sons received their first lessons in osteology from this skeleton In the late 20th century, the identifiable remains of Maȟpiya Akan Nažiŋ and other Native Americans were returned by the Mayo Clinic to a Dakota tribe for reburial per the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

one third of the other prisoners had died of disease.

To this end, a bounty of $25 per scalp was placed on any Dakota found free within the boundaries of the state

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_War_of_1862