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Slave Emancipation, Indian Peoples, and the Projects of a New American Nation-State

Slave Emancipation, Indian Peoples, and the Projects of a New American Nation-State robert forten baugh memorial l ecture Slave Emancipation, Indian Peoples, and the Projects of a New American Nation-State steven hah n At the very time he was drafting the Preliminary Emancipation Procla- mation in September 1862, President Abraham Lincoln dispatched one of his generals, John Pope, to Minnesota with orders to suppress a rebellion of the eastern, or Santee, division of the Sioux. The rebellion built on at least two decades of festering tensions that had turned relatively amicable exchange relations with British, French, and American traders—some of whom had intermarried and been incorporated into villages—into hard- bitten political confl icts with various federal offi cials and white settlers (mostly German, Scandinavian, and Irish immigrants) who hungrily eyed the fertile and game-rich terrain of southern Minnesota. In the process, the Sioux (who in this case composed four bands and called themselves Dakotas) had ceded millions of acres, which included ancestral grounds, for a strip of reservation land along the Minnesota River, annuity pay- ments, and supplies. Recalcitrance in the U.S. Congress along with corrup- tion among Indian agents and traders then combined to stretch a series of treaties to the breaking point; by the 1850s, the Dakotas were under http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of the Civil War Era University of North Carolina Press

Slave Emancipation, Indian Peoples, and the Projects of a New American Nation-State

Hahn, Steven,
The Journal of the Civil War Era , Volume 3 (3) – Aug 1, 2013
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robert forten baugh memorial l ecture Slave Emancipation, Indian Peoples, and the Projects of a New American Nation-State steven hah n At the very time he was drafting the Preliminary Emancipation Procla- mation in September 1862, President Abraham Lincoln dispatched one of his generals, John Pope, to Minnesota with orders to suppress a rebellion of the eastern, or Santee, division of the Sioux. The rebellion built on at least two decades of festering tensions that had turned relatively amicable exchange relations with British, French, and American traders—some of whom had intermarried and been incorporated into villages—into hard- bitten political confl icts with various federal offi cials and white settlers (mostly German, Scandinavian, and Irish immigrants) who hungrily eyed the fertile and game-rich terrain of southern Minnesota. In the process, the Sioux (who in this case composed four bands and called themselves Dakotas) had ceded millions of acres, which included ancestral grounds, for a strip of reservation land along the Minnesota River, annuity pay- ments, and supplies. Recalcitrance in the U.S. Congress along with corrup- tion among Indian agents and traders then combined to stretch a series of treaties to the breaking point; by the 1850s, the Dakotas were under

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