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Murdering Indians

- A Documentary History of the 1897 Killings That Inspired Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves
Af: Peter G. Beidler Engelsk Paperback

Murdering Indians

- A Documentary History of the 1897 Killings That Inspired Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves
Af: Peter G. Beidler Engelsk Paperback
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In February of 1897 a family of six--four generations, including twin infant sons and their aged great-grandmother--was brutally murdered in rural North Dakota. The weapons used were a shotgun, an axe, a pitchfork, a spade, and a club. Several Dakota Indians from the nearby Standing Rock reservation were arrested, and one was tried, pronounced guilty and sentenced to be hanged. The conviction was reversed by the state supreme court, which ordered a new trial. Only a week later, however, a mob of thirty angry men broke into the county jail in the middle of the night, dragged three of the five accused Indians out, and hanged them from a butcher''s windlass.

These events were fodder for hundreds of newspaper articles, letters, and legal documents. Many of those documents, including the transcript of the trial convicting one of the Indians and the statement by the state supreme court reversing the conviction, are collected in this work, and, with the author''s commentary, tell a disturbing tale of racism and revenge in the pioneer West, one that provided the basic story line for Ojibwe novelist Louise Erdrich''s acclaimed novel The Plague of Doves.

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In February of 1897 a family of six--four generations, including twin infant sons and their aged great-grandmother--was brutally murdered in rural North Dakota. The weapons used were a shotgun, an axe, a pitchfork, a spade, and a club. Several Dakota Indians from the nearby Standing Rock reservation were arrested, and one was tried, pronounced guilty and sentenced to be hanged. The conviction was reversed by the state supreme court, which ordered a new trial. Only a week later, however, a mob of thirty angry men broke into the county jail in the middle of the night, dragged three of the five accused Indians out, and hanged them from a butcher''s windlass.

These events were fodder for hundreds of newspaper articles, letters, and legal documents. Many of those documents, including the transcript of the trial convicting one of the Indians and the statement by the state supreme court reversing the conviction, are collected in this work, and, with the author''s commentary, tell a disturbing tale of racism and revenge in the pioneer West, one that provided the basic story line for Ojibwe novelist Louise Erdrich''s acclaimed novel The Plague of Doves.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9780786475643
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0786475641
Kategori: United States of America, USA
Udg. Dato: 31 okt 2013
Længde: 13mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato: 31 okt 2013
Forfatter(e): Peter G. Beidler
Forfatter(e) Peter G. Beidler

Kategori United States of America, USA

ISBN-13 9780786475643

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 256

Udgave

Længde 13mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 31 okt 2013

Oplagsdato 31 okt 2013

Forlag McFarland & Co Inc

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