To banish forever : a secret society, the Ho-Chunk, and ethnic cleansing in Minnesota / Cathy Coats

English

St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2024]

ix, 164 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-156) and index

978-1-68134-255-9 paperback

1-68134-255-3 paperback

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.

*Ho-Chunk Indians -- Minnesota -- History ; Ho-Chunk Indians -- Crimes against -- Minnesota ; Indian reservations -- Minnesota -- History -- 19th century ; Indians of North America -- Minnesota -- History ; Genocide -- Minnesota -- History ; Forced migration -- Minnesota -- History ; Minnesota -- Ethnic relations ; United States -- Ethnic relations

*HISTORY / United States / 19th Century ; HISTORY / Indigenous / Colonial History & Interaction with Nations, Tribes, Bands & Communities ; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes ; Minnesota - Relations interethniques ; États-Unis - Relations interethniques

Dewey Decimal Classification: 977.6/04

"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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