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What has been called the most destructive Native American uprising during the US Civil War?
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∙ 9y ago
While the Civil War saw many Native American uprisings on both sides of the conflict, the Cold Mountain uprising was extremely brutal. This was mainly by Cherokee and Lakota Indians that rose against both Confederate batteries and what they deemed Union invaders on their homelands.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 9y agoMany historians cite the Sioux uprising as the most destructive Native American insurrection during the US Civil War. This took place in Minnesota in August of 1862. The Sioux had signed away their territory in Eastern Minnesota in 1851 in exchange for annual payments along with a guaranteed one million acres reserved for their own use. Many Tribesmen were against the arrangement and all too often the US government payments were late in coming. In addition, many American traders had taken advantage of the Sioux through fraudulent debt schemes. The Tribe was also not happy with missionaries sent there to teach them "religion". Add to that the government position that Native tribes should rely on farming rather than hunting.
Internal divisions within the Sioux nation led to one side taunting the other to kill some white people to show they were not afraid of the US Government.
Sporadic killing of white settlers began to snowball. Soon the Sioux seemed bent on driving settlers east of the Mississippi. Two Union forts were attacked. Sadly, the pent up anger of the Sioux, who believed they had been scammed by Washington resulted in the worst white farmer massacre in US history. 800 farmers were killed and thousands of them fled to the safety of Federal forts.
Union Brigadier General Henry Hastings Sibley was called upon to end the uprising. The preliminary result was the retreat of American Natives to designated reservations.
The Native Tribal leader of the uprising was Little Crow who died in one of the battles. His group of leaders were captured and tried, 306 of them and sentenced to death. Lincoln believed that only 38 of the 306 deserved the death penalty. These were hanged at a mass execution on December 26, 1862. The rest were set free.
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