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

Author/creator Coats, Cathy author.
Format Book
PublicationSt. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2024.
Descriptionix, 164 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Subjects
Ho-Chunk Indians--Minnesota. --History.
Ho-Chunk Indians--Crimes against. --Minnesota.
Indians of North America--Minnesota. --History.
Genocide--Minnesota. --History.
Forced migration--Minnesota. --History.
Minnesota--Ethnic relations.
United States--Ethnic relations.
Minnesota--Relations interethniques.
États-Unis--Relations interethniques.

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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN9781681342559 (paperback)
ISBN1681342553 (paperback)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks E99 .W7 C63 2024 ✔ Available Place Hold