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To banish forever : a secret society, the Ho-Chunk, and ethnic cleansing in Minnesota
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To banish forever : a secret society, the Ho-Chunk, and ethnic cleansing in Minnesota / Cathy Coats.
ISBN
9781681342559
1681342553
Publication
St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2024]
Physical Description
ix, 164 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 15, 2024
Bibliography
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.
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