That is what were going to talk about today. After all, Abraham Lincoln had a lot on his plate. When he was president. The civil war. And that dominated most of his attention. But underneath the surface of the civil war, lay some important events involving American Indians. Events that might make Abraham Lincoln more of a problematic figure than he ordinarily is. So lets consider some u. S. Events in American Indian affairs that happened during his presidency. It was during his presidency that the socalled great sioux uprising or what we might call the dakota war of 1862 occurred. A conflict in which the state of minnesota was drenched in blood, as impoverished and hungry dakota waged war on settlers, then faced the wrath of whites, who hunted down susspected culprits, tried, convicted, and sentenced to death 303 men. Lincoln commuted the sentence of most of these individuals, but in the end, 38 were hung. In what remains americas largest mass execution. It was during the american pres
Through this one independent person. And if you cnan learn about her life, her work, her friends and her family, but you can get a sense of somebody having the kind of wherewithal and grit to make it professionally with this dream that anyone who tells her she can never do. There is no wish you couldve been a writer. One of her early doctors report says i will never be very much good at writing stores. I should let it go. She did not listen to him. Thank goodness. She said at the end of her life, ill paraphrase, the great people are wonderful encounter not for anything they tell us but for the way they give us a courage to be honest and free. That is what people can get from her, a kind of courage to be yourself. She wrote a little girl who is named after her and said if you uncles your aunts and tell them you should like me because you are named after me, you like what you like. That is the real richness in these letters. We continue our tour of the literary life of lincoln, nebraska,