Chief Bigfoot's Band was intercepted by the 7th Calvary on this day in 1890

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39. "If they are hungry let them eat grass or their own dung." Trader Andrew Myrick 1862

remember all who died and the reasons that led the Dakota to attempt to recapture their own land rather than starve to death. Remember that Minnesota newspapers published articles encouraging settlers to leave strychnine poisoned food along Indian trails and hailed the more efficient costs of poison over lead and gunpowder.

Every atrocity committed by Native Americans was committed in retaliation or in a hopeless attempt to defend their land, their culture and existence. Every atrocity committed by Europeans against Native People was committed in the taking of their land.

GENERAL POPE: First commander of the Military Department of the Northwest, and later a Civil War leader in the Union Army:
"It is my purpose to exterminate the Sioux."
Later, after uttering these words, General Pope over-saw the military trial of the Santee-Dakota People, arrested after their desperate attempt to drive out the settlers in southwest Minnesota. The Santee-Dakota were slowing starving to death due to chronic shortages of promised government rations and rampant theft of government commodities by traders and corrupt government officials. After a trader named Andrew Myrick told a council of elders, "So far as I am concerned, if they are hungry let them eat grass or their own dung," 92). the Santee-Dakota rebelled and drove off 1000's of settlers, killing hundreds before their rebellion failed against the weight of General Pope's Army. Of the 392 prisoners tried, 306 were sentenced to death. So gross was the miscarriage of justice in these proceedings that all but 38 of the death sentences were commuted.
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