Many of you probably do not think about Abraham Lincoln in context of American Indian or indigenous history. 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, b
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
this is america s late news. fox news at night. and breaking tonight, the new evidence is very strong that voters are not happy and the anger appears to be across the political spectrum. young, old, black, hispanic. the numbers for president biden are getting worse and when you have a lot of ground to make up in the new year, solutions seem to be few and far between t senior national correspondent kevin corke is live in dc with the very latest on this kevin good evening. reporter: happy new year my friend, evening to you. now last year president biden reportedly spent about, let s just say about a third of his time on the job away from the job, as it were, at get aways, posh vacation spots and almost weekly at his home over in delaware. but as he gets back to work in 2024 the oldest president in american history is saddled with the lowest approval numbers of any president running for a second term since the end of world war ii with 58%, nearly 6 in 10 americans disapproving
This. Were live not of osborn in central phoenix. The core of engineers has an office here and they will hold off on its plans and talk to the standing siux tribe before going ahead with the pipeline under the river. That did not keep people from protesting. They say this battle is far from over. In central phoenix, more than 100 people stood on a send a message over 1,000 miles away to Dakota Access pipeline proesters in north dakota. I think it is important to stand with Standing Rock to show we are here and we are standing in solidarity withStanding Rock. Reporter the Standing Rock tribe has been fighting plans to near their land. It is a fight against big oil say these protesters but it is more of a fight for clean water. It is an important topic to keep water clean and standing in solidarity with the human race. Water is what we need as living beings. Reporter fighting a Big Oil Company is no easy task but these protesters say their voices have made a ignoring it does not make a d
Daylight. This cannot continue. Police say they will have a step to patrol in the robles park area for the next few days as they search for the suspects and want to make sure there is no continued violence or potential retaliation. Eric glasser, 10news. Talk about scary times but put it in perspective. Three months ago a baby girl was shot in a driveby shooting in pasco county. You have been involved with Law Enforcement. Cops take this seriously. Number one, if you were a parent like i was anything involving a child shooting really gets you angry. And the community there where it happened, those people get angry and they become very alert and become more informative to officers. Officers will double down and triple of efforts to track down someone that does this and shoots randomly and hits a child, they could care less about anybody elses life. Police recognize this and they make this a mandatory priority. Lets hope they catch him soon. Developing tonight in minnesota officer is char