Abstract

"38 Nooses" details the events surrounding the 1862 uprising of the Dakota Indians led by Little Crow within the larger context of the Civil War, the history of the Dakota people, and the subsequent United States-Indian wars.

Table of Contents From the conflict to the camp. Introduction ; The Dakota conflict : the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 -- The beginning of the exile. The Dakota collected, examined, expelled ; How the Dakota diaspora began -- First days at Fort Snelling. Arriving at the fort ; The stockade and shelter ; GUards and visitors ; Pictorial preservation -- Epidemic. Initial incidence of the coming epidemic ; Comments on Dakota mortality -- Surviving each day. The first census at the Fort Snelling Indian camp ;...