The Hanging of 38 Sioux In 1862

[cinemo]

Hi, ladonna

again, thanks for these lists and additional explanations.

The information in my recently posting with regard to Washechoon I was reading in this link:

everlastingexile.weebly.com/dakota-use-of-tobacco.html

Please see Part C Number 13. The Aftermath of the war

This link contains many books and articles as sources. I must search for the origin of this
text for Washechoon. Just I was reading another name for Washechoon. The other name
is Toon-kan-shkan-shkan-mane. ( similar to Tunkanskamani

Please see this link for trial 318 :

athrillingnarrative.com/2012/12/29/1862-trial-318-wa-she-choon/

cinemo

[ladonna]

i guess the people were trying to sound out our names,
according to our oral storys Washicu was 16 years old
and very slow or mild retarded

[Dietmar]

Here are some of the likenesses we have of the 38 Dakotas executed in Mankato:


Cut Nose aka Stands in the Mist of the Clouds (Mahpiyaokincjin), leader of the Mdewakanton soldier lodge


Red Leaf (Wahpaduta)


Windmaker (Ta-ta-ka-gay)


Tenazepa aka The Singer (Dowansa)


Tenazepa aka The Singer (Dowansa)


One Who Forbids His House (Tehedonecha)


One Who Forbids His House (Tehedonecha)


One Who Forbids His House (Tehedonecha)


Tinkling Water (Snamane)

[ladonna]

Oh my thank you for these picture it made tears to see our people before they died

[ladonna]

This is my great great grandfather who was hung with the 38 at Manikota his names is Oyatetawa–Matthew- Wy-a-tah-ta-wa, (His People.) his daughter was called Nape Hote Win she was a child when her mother made it to the Ihunktonwana camps in the James River Valley where at nine years old she was shot in the hip at the Whitestone massacre in 1863 and taken as prisoner of war to Crow Creek her mother died at the massacre, then when released made her way to Sisseton where she is put on the rolls there then came to Standing Rock where she married. My great grandmother Agatha Brave Bull was her daughter, they said when she was old she would wake in the night screaming and shouting for the people to run, I am Ihunktonwana, Sisseton and Pabaska Dakota this my story

[Dietmar]

Thank you for sharing this, Ladonna.

I updated the photos above, because Wind Comes Home´s photo was confused with Windmaker´s:


Windmaker (Ta-ta-ka-gay)


These are additional portraits of The Singer and One Who Forbids His House:


Tenazepa aka The Singer (Dowansa)


Tenazepa aka The Singer (Dowansa)


Unidentified & One Who Forbids His House (Tehedonecha)


Unidentified & One Who Forbids His House (Tehedonecha)

[Dietmar]

This is Wind Comes Home:


Wind Comes Home (Tatayhdedan)

[cinemo]

Hi ladonna and Dietmar,

thanks for the replies on your part.

On January13, 1863, an account appeared in the New York Times about the hanging on December 26.
This account was written by an eyewitness of the executions. The account stated, that just previous to
the execution General Sibley reprieved, or rather respited the sentence of Ta-Tay-Me-Ma, an elderly
Dakota. In this account is stated, that at the moment of the execution, a rope or loop was broken. A new
rope was procured, and the man was hanged a second time. ( Presumably, this man was Hdainyanka ( Rattling Runner )

The account contains a names list of the executed men. Number 31 in this list designated Wa-she-choon,
translated as Frenchman. 31. Wa-she-choon, (Frenchman.)

cinemo

[ladonna]

If u know our language Washechoon or Washcu means Takers of Fat which is name we called white people which came from our first view of non native they would take the fat from the animal for their lamps, it was not a bad word just what we saw so even though they say it means French man it is just Taker of Fat

[cinemo]

Ah, thanks, this meaning was not known to me

[Dietmar]

Another Dakota man hanged at Makota was His Thunder aka Chaska.
He was a victim of some misunderstanding, haven´t been prosecuted at all. He died just because he had a similar name to some other Dakota. Actually, he saved many lives during the war of 1862.


Chaska or His Thunder


Little Crow & Chaska

Biography of Chaska:
www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=47616770

[lgarcia]

I hate to seem like a know-it-all but the photos of Little Crow and Caska - Those are the photos of Wakinyantawa.

Caska or Wakinyantawa was not hung at Mankato.
WakinyanTawa (His own Thunder) was Little Crow's Akicita Itancan (Head Soldier) He had a falling out with Little Crow.
He later joined Gen. Sibley as a scout and died when he drank some whiskey out of a glass that formerly contained poison. He is buried north of Driscol, North Dakota at the Caska Historic Site
along Interstate Highway 94.

[Dietmar]

Thank you Louie,

corrections are always appreciated.

There seem to have been several Chaskas among the condemned Dakota.
Robert Hopkins Chaska was another, whose death sentence was overturned later, according to Curtis Dahlin´s book.

Best wishes

Dietmar

[cinemo]

Recently I wrote: The Washechoon who was executed, was a sixteen year old white boy, who had been
brought up among the Dakotas ( See Reply #11 and Reply #15 )

It seems, this was first written in a book by Thomas Hughes, History of Blue Earth County, published 1909.
I was finding a hint ( footnote ) about that in History Of The Santee Sioux, by R.W. Meyer ( page 130 )

cinemo

[charlie]

I always have seen the chief seated near Little Crow named MEDICINE BOTTLE.
He also was named by his people WAKAN O ZHAN (Sacred Light).
He belonged to the Kaposia (Light Weights) band of the Mdewakanton subdivision.
He died hanged in 11 November 1865 at Pine Knob, near Fort Snelling, together the chief
Shakopee (Little Six).
Can anyone added other info about the chiefs CUT NOSE, THE SINGER, RED LEAF and ONE WHO FORBIDS HIS HOUSE ?