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Over the Earth I Come - The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 (Paperback)
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Over the Earth I Come - The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R520
Discovery Miles 5 200
You Save R104 (17%)
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December 26, 1862. On the day after Christmas, in Mankato,
Minnesota, thirty-eight Sioux Indians were hanged on the order of
President Lincoln. It stands today as the greatest mass execution
in the history of the United States. In Over the Earth I Come,
Duane Schultz brilliantly retells one of America's most violent and
bloody events--the Great Sioux Uprisings of 1862. In less than one
week in August, the Sioux went on a rampage throughout Minnesota
that left hundreds of settlers dead. Whole families were burned
alive in their farmhouses. Children were nailed to barn doors,
girls raped by a dozen braves and hacked to pieces, babies
dismembered in front of their horrified mothers. Nearly forty
thousand settlers became refugees, and for one brief moment in
time, the Sioux people were restored to their ancestral land and
reclaimed their pride and dignity. In this well-researched and
insightful narrative, Duane Schultz uncovers the events and
injustices that sparked this violent uprising. The Sioux of
Minnesota, perceived as a peaceful tribe, harbored intense
resentment over the lands appropriated by the whites, the
disappearance of the buffalo, broken treaties, and the lies and
deceptions of the government and its representatives. In the summer
of 1862, delayed annuity payments from land treaties and the
refusal of traders to release food to starving Indians sparked the
first of a series of wars between Indians and whites. Over the
Earth I Come recounts a part of American history that should never
be forgotten.
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