The Dakota 38+2 Ride: Revealing Minnesota’s Dark Past of Mass Execution

MANKATO, MN (trfnews.i234.me) A ride to remember those lost in the largest mass execution in U.S. history at Mankato, Minnesota 160 years ago this week.
oh on Monday a disturbing part of Minnesota History was Remembered in Mankato where 160 years ago 38 Warriors and two others were killed in the largest hanging in U.S history the Dakota 38 plus two Riders rode from South Dakota to Mankato Monday to remember their ancestors here’s the Wikipedia recount of that horrific event the Dakota war of 1862 also known as the Sioux Uprising was an armed conflict between the United States and several bands of Dakota also known as the Eastern soup it began on August 17th of 1862 along the Minnesota River in southwest Minnesota four years after Minnesota’s admission as a state throughout the late 1850s in the lead-up to the war treaty violations by the United States and late or unfair annuity payments by Indian agents caused increasing hunger and hardship among the Dakota during the war the Dakota made extensive tax on attacks on hundreds of settlers and immigrants which resulted in settler deaths and caused many to flee the area an intense desire for immediate Revenge ended with soldiers capturing hundreds of Dakota men and interning their families a Military Tribunal quickly tried them in sentencing 303 to death for their crimes President Lincoln would later commute the sentence of 264 of them a mass hanging of 38 Dakota men was conducted on December 26 1862 in Mankato Minnesota it was the largest mass execution in United States history I’m Neil Berg reporting for itrfnews.i234.me