MPR News: New documentary about 1862 Lakota executions

by jessica on Jan.18, 2011, under JOURNAL: Nature, art, cultural perspectives

MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO: New documentary remembers largest mass execution in US history

The largest mass execution in U.S. history occurred 148 years ago, when 38 Dakota warriors were hanged from a single scaffold in Mankato.

The shock waves of that mass execution still reverberate today among the Dakota people. A new documentary film remembers the 38, and also a group of Dakota who ride on horseback each year at this time to Mankato to commemorate the executions of Dec. 26, 1862.

:American Indian, documentaries, lakota, Native American, us history

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