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Dakota War-Whoop - or, Indian Massacres and War in Minnesota of 1862-1863 (Paperback)
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Dakota War-Whoop - or, Indian Massacres and War in Minnesota of 1862-1863 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1970, this volume from Mrs Harriet E. Bishop
McConkey, a pioneer schoolteacher of St. Paul, Minnesota, was part
of the first wave of contemporaneous accounts from Americans in
1863 documenting their perspective of the Sioux Uprising between
the 17th of August and the 26th of September 1862. At least 450
settlers and soldiers were killed, depopulating large areas.
Although not a direct eyewitness to events, Harriet McConkey was on
the fringes of the action in St. Paul and gathered material
firsthand from the participants themselves, enabling her to convey
the settlers' story with profound emotional involvement and
intimacy, though with equally profound bitterness for the Native
Americans. McConkey made little attempt to explore their
motivations in the form of famine, late payment and poor treatment.
Though imperfect, hers remains an important account documenting the
settlers' experience of the event which began a succession of wars
over thirty years, ending at Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1890.
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