Colin Mustful is a Minnesota author and historian with a unique story-telling style that tells History Through Fiction. His work focuses on Minnesota and surrounding regions during the complex transitional period as land was transferred from Native peoples to American hands. Mustful strives to create compelling stories about the real-life people and events of a tumultuous and forgotten past. His RU-vid channel features important historical events related to the history in his books and on his blog.
Fantastic content. I grew up within walking distance of Battle Creek, living on Upper Afton Rd. As a youth in the 1950’s, I found many arrowheads in the immediate area, as did others.
What this synopsis of events fails to cover are some of what transpired prior to the trials. I concede the point regarding the inequities of the treaties, the failure of the government to make timely and accurate payments, and transgressions into Indian lands by whites. However, for their part the Dakota Indians escalated the situation and attacked numerous homesteads, torturing, raping, and murdering. Most estimates are in the vicinity of 800 white non-combatants that were killed, the majority women and children. Lincoln has been skewered in some of the comments, but it was the military court that cast judgement. Lincoln was under intense political pressure to sentence all 303 Dakota to death. After review, he either pardoned or reduced the sentences of 265, and signed off on the death sentence of only 38. There would have been vigilante justice on the part of whites against Dakota had pardoned all 303. Did the Indians get a raw deal at the hands of the government? Yes, but Indians got a raw deal in every dealing with the US government, in every location. These trials could have been a lot worse for the Indians had Lincoln done what the public wanted.
The forgotten tragedy at the Cheney rush Valley! The northern ranchers vs. the very hunkpati Dakota sioux people! The very terrible land dispute for the northern reservation homelands of the crow creek sioux Indian reservation of SD. The early 20th century of the early days of the great depression! Have a very impressive beautiful day.😀😊
Your weird explanation of women's status in those days is totally wrong. Any one who babbles about "patriarchal society" and pretends that the European culture was more patriarchal than the Indian culture does not know what he is talking about. The Indian culture was FAR more patriarchal, and women were treated as objects that could be beaten routinely. As a matter of fact, the Indians usually told the white men that they treated their women too good and they needed to beat them more. Sadly, you have been fooled by nonsense histories that are really naked political propaganda.
Thanks pard for this bit of history. I visited this fort Abercrombie a month ago on its opening day with the 5th Minn as a Civil War Reenactor - sharing our fun with you at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zeaU-NVKRuE.html --LT
Still not sure why you fail to mention the 800 plus innocent settlers who were murdered, mutilated, tortured and kidnapped by their "friendly neighbors". The indians had every right to be frustrated with having to wait several weeks for the money they had been promised, but massacres and war with the innocents?
No "Union" claims of fighting a morally righteous war against the South would then go ommit atrocities against the Dakota and the Navajo and then the plains indians mere months of ending the Civil War....
Slanted history of the Dakota/Mn war -- nothing to say about the slaughter of settlers including children and women - the hacking up of bodies to stop the dead from fighting in the afterlife. Yes the indian agents were crooked but does that mean all the slaughtered settlers should be written off as not important enough to include in you summary?
If only Little Crow could/would have controlled his warriors. I mean, their beef was with the U.S. Government, and not the hundreds of unsuspecting settlers they slaughtered. Imagine coming home and finding your baby crucified to a tree and in some instances other family members much, much worse. Most likely anyone seeing this would have been pissed too...
@@davidlarson2041 New Ulm is my hometown, the countryside is filled with historical markers and there are many factual records of what happened in print. Civilians in war are always collateral damage no matter how strong the effort they not be, but rarely intentionally sought out, massacred, and mutilated. The settlers had no idea what was going on at the Lower Sioux Reservation and no idea of the horror that was coming exclusively for them.
@@Bumpyi64 I wouldn't know about all the markers but I do read and hear all about the awful whites but little about what the sioux did to the settlers - and that is my point - the settlers - many were slaughtered and tricked into trusting those they helped in the past who then turned on them. Little is said about that or them - but the focus is usually on the bad treatment of the sioux.
The Refugees who fled from Minnesota appeared to offer a different result in Wyoming a couple years later. Red Cloud assembled a group to overcome the US Army and close the Bozeman Trail. The Treaty of 1868 that gave Lakota and their associates the region from the Bear Paws , to the Dakota Territory on the Banks of the Missouri River, were forgotten as soon as Fools found Gold in Paha Sapa..... That conflict was overlooked too......
I believe there are many interesting stories of battles between these two tribes, they just aren't all written down. My great grandfather lived near Mille Lacs lake and was a friend to many Ojibwe there. They told him a story of the men returning to a village on the lake to find that the Dakota had killed women and children while they were away. The Dakota were making a hasty retreat in the old style dug out canoes. The Objibwe chased them down in their lighter, faster birch bark canoes and killed them. Of course the Ojibwe had taken the lake and surrounding area from the Dakota around 1745, so there was much back and forth between the two.
And another historical example for why a Governor of Minnesota, Rudy Perpich, properly approved in the early 1980s of Indian gaming as just one small step to try to right the wrongs of over 150 years of American Government abuse of Native Americans in Minnesota.
Remember, the same government that covers up atrocities like this is the same government that has brainwashed you into thinking the Confederacy was evil. Secession was as right in 1860 as it was in 1776.
Very interesting. I did not know of this incident. But there are many small stories we'll never know. I'm pleased that there was some recognition of the atmosphere that prompted the event.
america's hitler,, since the first white people met the indigenous they have always been interested in a better gov,t. claiming democracy, Jesuits wrote christians saw the demise of the church for the open freedom of how Indigenous people regarded spirituality as a Great Mystery. Misogyny was the gift of the bible
During the great depression of the early 1930s. Many plain Indian tribes. Actually wore a traditional buck skin feathered clothing and a true western cowboy 🤠 native American indigenous tribal member. A very impressive beautiful look 🤠 of perfect style.
Commanding sixty plus troops, Sheehan commanded a detachment or maybe a weak company, not a regiment (but obviously part of one). Artillery made all the difference for the defenders, as it did at other battles. For a detailed description of the battle, see Dr. John Grenier's article "The Battle of Fort Ridgely: Artillery saves the fort, and Minnesota, for the Union in Aug. 1862" in Field Artillery Journal, Issue 4, 2003. It MAY be available online.
Miigwetch for this video. This video helps me understand my nation's rich history in the Great State of Minnesota. I am very proud of the state of Minnesota for preserving our heritage. :)
Thank you for uploading this. I found out recently that my Great Grandmother was a Squaw in the Winnebago Tribe. (my grandfather was born out of wedlock, and therefore was given up for adoption, around 1940) Doesn't seem to be a whole lot of information on youtube about the tribe, and this was very informative. I was born in Sioux City, IA, reasonably close to the Reservation in Nebraska, which makes sense as that is where my Grandma, and Grandpa were married and raised their family as well. (South Sioux city, on my mom's side) To my understanding and what my Grandpa had told me before he passed many years ago, I am 1/8 Winnebago. Hard to fathom that I am likely a descendant of the 150 or so that survived the outbreaks in the 1620's, and all the other hardships they have overcome to be as big of a population they are today. Again, thank you for this information!
Grew up in Frogtown, Midway. St Paul is very small so this was enlightening. Knew the obvious Indian connection with Mounds Park, didn't know about Battle Creek. Thanks.
Boozhoo Sabé Indiginikaaz 👣, Migizi Doodem🦅, Annishinaabé, Lac Du Flambeau Ojibway and Cree, French and Norwegian. Boise Idaho USA indoongibaa, born in Williston North Dakota. Chi Miigwich brother. Merçi Beaucoup, ¡Muchos Graçias, Dunka, Spaceeba, Comsomnidaa, Arigato, Thank you for sharing!
And I’m so glad you were able to identify the TRUE founder of the source of our Great River, and put credit where credit is due! Just goes to show, that Research and perseverance in digging further brings the truth to light, and honor to the Spirit of the Native woman! Kudos!
As government has greater control over the people, the people get screwed. We have moved 3 years closer to this form of tyranny in our own recent history. Hopefully videos like this will open people’s eyes as to the why our founding fathers feared autocracy and unelected government and did their best to provide constitutional protections. Thank you Mr. Mustful.
