In 1862, 303 Santee Sioux were sentenced to death by a military commission after a 37 day resistance to US treatment of the Sioux and the breaking of a treaty between the two nations. President Abraham Lincoln personally reviewed the convictions of all 303 and, finding many of the convictions corrupt, tossed out the majority. In the end, 38 Sioux were hanged the day after Christmas, 1862. These are now remembered as the Dakota 38.
Abraham Lincoln & the
Dakota 38
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