Did you know that 162 years ago, the US executed 38 Native Americans in the largest mass execution in its history? On December 26, 1862, 38 Dakota nation members were hung in Mankato, Minnesota, for their role in the US Dakota War. The 38 prisoners of war were hung in front of an estimated 4,000 spectators on a specially constructed scaffold and were left dangling on the scaffold for half an hour. Read on.
Did you know that 162 years ago, the US executed 38 Native Americans in the largest mass execution in its history? On December 26, 1862, 38 Dakota nation members were hung in Mankato, Minnesota, for their role in the US Dakota War. The 38 prisoners of war were hung in front of an estimated 4,000 spectators on a specially constructed scaffold and were left dangling on the scaffold for half an hour. Read on.
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