Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862

Miller, David Reed; Anderson, Gary Clayton; Woolworth, Alan R.

doi:10.2307/482459

Cited by 8 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In that same year, the Minnesota Adjutant General granted US$25 for every Dakota scalp and US$200 for a proven Dakota death. This order was not annulled until 1868, further deputizing private individuals and militias alongside soldiers to pursue lucrative reward for the murder of Native peoples (Anderson and Woolworth 1988;Routel 2013). The U.S.-Dakota war heralded wholesale dispossession, extreme deprivation, and threatened extermination.…”

Section: Revenge and Retaliationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Settler Empire and the United States: Francis Lieber on the Laws of War

Kinsella

2022

Am Polit Sci Rev

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Histories of political science and of the laws of war identify the nineteenth-century scholar Francis Lieber as their modern founder. His 1863 General Orders 100 codified the modern laws of war, internationalizing his political thought. Yet, relatively unremarked is that Lieber wrote his foundational texts during U.S. settler colonization, which he justified in whole. I argue that GO100 facilitated settler colonial violence by defining modern war as a public war, arrogating it to sovereign states; distinguishing revenge from retaliation, attributing revenge to the “savage”; and elevating a certain racialized/gendered governance, ascribing it to the Cis-Caucasian race. Producing Native peoples and Native wars as lacking in the proper characteristics of sovereign belligerency resulted in a subordination of status and a legitimation of exterminatory tactics that were subsequently universalized and (re)internationalized through GO100’s determinative influence on the laws of war. Tracing GO100 further exposes the founding of the discipline in Native peoples’ dispossession and extermination.

show abstract

Section: Revenge and Retaliationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Settler Empire and the United States: Francis Lieber on the Laws of War

Kinsella

2022

Am Polit Sci Rev

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Framing the Discussion

Lybeck

2020

Critical Social Justice Education and the Assault on Truth in White Public Pedagogy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Naming Violence in United States Colonialism

Spence¹

2019

Journal of Social History

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article reexamines a highly public dispute between a powerful and well-connected Episcopal bishop and his missionary priest, men both central to the government’s campaign of war and assimilation against Indigenous Peoples in the Northern Great Plains of the nineteenth-century United States. The bishop claimed that the priest had engaged in sexual intercourse with a Dakota woman named “Scarlet House,” and used this allegation to remove the priest from his post. No historian ever challenged this claim and asked who Scarlet House was. Employing Dakota-resourced evidence, government and church records, linguistics, and onomastics, this study reveals that in actuality there was no such person as Scarlet House. Furthermore, at the time of the incident, the person in question was not a woman but a child. The church created a fictional personage to cover up what was taking place at the agency: sexual violence against children. After “naming” this violence, this article makes four key historical contributions about the history of US settler colonialism: It documents Dakota Peoples’ agency, by demonstrating how they adapted their social structures to the harrowing conditions of the US mission and agency system. It situates the experiences of two Dakota families within the larger context of settler-colonial conquest in North America, revealing the generational quality of settler-colonial violence. It shows how US governmental policies actually enabled sexual predation against children and women. And, it argues that “naming violence” means both rendering a historical account of the sexual violence experienced by children and families in the care of the US government and its agents, as well as acknowledging how this violence has rippled out through communities and across generations.

show abstract

Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862

Cited by 8 publications

References 0 publications

Settler Empire and the United States: Francis Lieber on the Laws of War

Settler Empire and the United States: Francis Lieber on the Laws of War

Framing the Discussion

Naming Violence in United States Colonialism

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About