DeSotoSky
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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost.
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U.S. soldiers executed 38 Dakota by hanging in Mankato, Minn. on Dec. 26, 1862. The scene is depicted in this painting by J. Thullen in 1884. It's the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Most historians now believe that many of those executed were innocent of the crimes of which they were accused. Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
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On this Day, August 17th, 1862. A Hunting party of starving Dakota raided a settlement to steal eggs. The raid resulted in the death of 5 settlers. This was the opening act of what was to become the US-Dakota war of 1862. The war lasted 5-6 weeks and the death toll may have approached 1,000 with heavy casualties on both sides, greater than even Little Big Horn or Wounded Knee. Historically the Sioux occupied western Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Northern Idaho. ("Sioux" is a broader term encompassing the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota peoples) The Eastern Dakota had occupied the Western Minnesota territories for centuries which is the area of this event. At the beginning of the 19th century as more and more settlers moved into the Indian Territories many treaties were made (and broken). All of these treaties resulted in the Dakotas giving up more and more of their territories. In exchange they were promised money and food in return. At the same time more and more settlers were being encouraged to move in. The Indians were pushed into a postion of being more and more dependent on the food and payments from the government as their own resources to be self supporting were being diminished. With the outbreak of the Civil War in the East the Federal government was no longer able to meet it's obligations to support the tribes. Starvation took hold and reached a crisis point in 1862. Raids and fighting was intense thru September when the Dakota were finally defeated by Federal forces. The surrendered Dakota were subjected military trial in November. 498 trials were held, 300 resulted in the death penalty. Each trial lasting only minutes with no representation. President Lincoln commuted all but 39 of the death penalties. Those not hung were imprisoned in Iowa for 4 years. 1600 Dakota women, children, & elderly were impounded on an island during the 1862-1863 winter under conditions that caused many to die. Minnesota cancelled all treaties with the Indians and put a $200 bounty on Dakota scalps. Congress passed legislation making it illegal for the Dakota to live in Minnesota. It remains a law to this day.
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2 Pheasants on the Ground. Aurum gold etch blade on a brass framed 110.
An issue of 1,000 in 1987 and documented on the Special Projects List the same year.
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