Over the Earth I Come - The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862

344 Pages·1992·29.692 MB·English

by  Duane Schultz

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December 26, 1862. On the day after
Christmas, inMankato, 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
wenton a rampagethroughoutMinnesotathat
left hundreds of settlers dead. Whole families
were burned alive in their farmhouses.
Childrenwerenailedtobarndoors,girlsraped
byadozenbravesandhackedtopieces, babies
dismembered in front of their horrified
mothers. Nearly forty thousand settlers
became refugees, and forone 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.TheSiouxofMinnesota, perceivedas
a peaceful tribe, harbored intense resentment
overthe lands appropriated by the whites, the
disappearance of the buffalo, broken treaties,
and the lies and deceptions ofthe government
and its representatives. In the summerof 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 -. part
of American history that should nevO- be
forgotten.
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Theassistanceofthe DivisionofLibraryand Archives, and theAudioVisual
Library, ofthe Minnesota Historical Society isgrateful acknowledged.
OVERTHE EARTHICOME. Copyright © 1992 by Duane Schultz. All rights reserved.
Printed in the United StatesofAmerica. No partofthis book may be used or
reproduced in any mannerwhatsoeverwithoutwritten permissionexceptin the
caseofbriefquotationsembodied in critical articlesorreviews. For information,
address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, NewYork, N.Y. 10010.
DESIGN BY DAWN NILES
LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-Publication Data
Schultz, Duane P.
Overtheearth I come : thegreatSiouxuprisingof1862/Duane Schultz.
p. cm.
"AThomas Dunne book."
ISBN0-312-07051-9
1. Dakota Indians—Wars, 1862-1865. I. Title.
E83.86.S36 1992
973.7—dc20 91-36453
GIF
First Edition: March 1992
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