Posted by paul on March 01, 2012 at 22:44:43 from (66.44.132.109):
In Reply to: Paul or kow farmer o/t posted by flying belgian on March 01, 2012 at 19:46:09:
I'm not involved in current events. Read the stories in the paper tho, and interested in the history of it all.
Part of the Indian attack more or less came accross the lands my mom's side of the family lived on. Tho it was a bit more friendly that direction, only got tense & hostile when closer to New Ulm.
I'm not proud of the way the US govt and so forth treated Indians. For sure.
On the other hand, my mom's family and their neighbors were just farmers, bought their land and carved out a hard life and didn't go out of their way to be a trouble to the Indians.
From that perspective.... I guess the Indians weren't treated well, but the Indians turned around and attacked people that weren't the one's treating them badly. Don't see where 2 wrongs makes it right either then.
Took a tour of the New Ulm cemetary a couple years ago. Amazing history back in the old part, stone tree trunks for headstones, lots of symbolism in the adornments, etc.
Anyhow, we stood by some small round cement dots in the ground, and it was old graves that had been located or documented. People that died in disease outbreaks, would be 5 kids from the same family all burried in the same month, etc. Also the graves of those killed in the Dakota Conflict. They said the mass funeral for those killed was held one day, and _that same day_ the train went through New Ulm with the Indians on it headed for Mankato. The RR tracks are one border of the cemetary.... Imagine you're farming or a town person doing your thing, living your life as best you can, and you get attacked out of the blue. Then as you're burrying your loved ones the people blamed for attacking you are shipped past the cemetary....
Lot of plaques around New Ulm and Milford township telling of a battle or how things were fortressed.
I sure understand how the Indians were mistreated & provoked into rebelling. For sure.
The folks they chose to attack were mostly not involved in any of that, so sure doesn't seem like they did the right thing either.
Like most disagreements, complex issues and ends up everyone is hurt or wrong, no winners.
The people of New Ulm and west didn't deserve being attacked either.
There is a rumor - and it has pretty much been proven to be only rumor but makes a nice story in the family tree book - that I would be 128th Indian or some such. Not true, but a good story.
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