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Dakota War Whoop. Indian Massacres And War In Minnesota
HARRIET E. BISHOP McCONKEY
Other works by HARRIET E. BISHOP McCONKEYPublication: R R Donnelley & Sons Company, 1965, Chicago
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Harriet E. Bishop McConkey, a pioneer schoolteacher of St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1863 documented her perspective of the Sioux Uprising between the 17th of August and the 26th of September 1862. At least 450 settlers and soldiers were killed. Although not a direct eyewitness to events, Harriet McConkey was on the fringes of the action in St. Paul and gathered material firsthand from the participants themselves. Her description remains an important account documenting the settlers’ experience of the event which began a succession of wars over thirty years, ending at Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1890.
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