To banish forever : a secret society, the Ho-Chunk, and ethnic cleansing in Minnesota / Cathy Coats.
Publisher:
Minnesota Historical Society Press,
Copyright Date:
2024
Description:
ix, 164 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
An acknowledgment of land, people, and institutions -- Introduction: hidden history preserved -- The people of the big voice -- The takeover of Ho-Chunk homelands -- Ho-Chunk removals in Minnesota territory -- The theft of Minnesota and the call for extermination -- Mankato Men and the secret society tradition -- The knights of the forest -- The banishment of the Ho-Chunk from Minnesota -- Ethnic cleansing and the forgotten legacy.
Summary:
"In 1863, after the end of the US-Dakota War, a group of white men in Mankato, Minnesota, formed a secret society, pledging to expel the Ho-Chunk people from the nearby Blue Earth reservation with the goal of claiming for themselves some of the richest farmland in the world." -- Page 4 of cover.
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