Show HESE STATES f Fete Recalls Indian Uprising Features EW EW ULM MINN five Eighty years ago this month the x K Indians under command of of Chief Little Crow struck struck- out outlast j last desperate at attempt empt to drive drle e the white man from their idly shrinking empire in the Midwest states Center enter of the which occurred at a period when America k ck was end ened en- en e ed d in bitter civil war between the states was New Ulm i- i y German settlement in Minnesota The Indians struck struck z sudden s savage fury ury in what history has recorded a as tv thA Ulm Massacre Although the ns ns' ns cause was hopeless from it cost the lives of more men women and children Minnesota he e Indians were vere in the te end bad bad- n and driven from the into Dakota territory Many captured and more than sentenced to hang 1 f President Lincoln spared the theof of the great majority of these S 8 eventually died in the grea- grea 3 RSC c hanging America ever has Jed ded frere pere ere are different versions he the incident that touched off trouble con conceded eded to have one of the most serious of j American Indian uprisings I 1 that by many is the story storye t. t tt at it was provoked by the td i of a rene renegade ade Indian med One Who Kills Ghosts i r r a mess of eggs for break- break tro o ste st t. t eR ie e story has it that one of his hise ue e ordered One Who Kills to put down the eggs to avoid avoiding I ting ing trouble One Who Kills ts thereupon accused the other ein eng jing a coward and afraid of white man Muster luster for forat Varat War Var hat at at allegedly set off oft the spark ie e quarrel that followed the theng ng g g bucks d decided to prove their Ir r rand and went to a nearby settlers settler's e and shot up members of the ly y 7 Indians throughout the Minla Min Min- ta la river valley immediately be- be mustering for war and the next day whites at the lower icy cy cy were attacked The Indians I d out over the country on both bothof of the river despoiling every dement ement by torch tomahawk and or r. r settlers hurried their ies to New Ulm mm as the Indians ed for Attack Milford a rural ement seven miles west of New I was attacked and many of habitants killed on August 18 following day a force of wars war's war war- s 's s hit at New Ulm killing sev- sev persons and burning a number numbers s Cw L The defense held howand how- how r and after some spirited fight fight- the savages withdrew t r the battle reinforcements J rived from St. St Peter Mankato r Sueur and other neighboring c bringing the defense ces es to around Maj Charles Flandrau a former Indian sit t was placed in command and tenses of the town were strength strength- d. d 1 Path of Destruction pur our ur days later on August 23 the Hans lians attacked New Ulm mm in great- great number umber Fighting continued un- un moon hoon noon of the following day when attackers withdrew Of the thew w Urn Ulm defenders 34 had been ed led 60 wounded Nearly dings had been destroyed the same time the Indians 0 0 laid siege to Fort Ridgely a ted States military post ed d in in 1853 18 miles up the river m New Ulm During the niner nine- nine r siege two formidable assaults re e made and repulsed The In- In then retreated into the Das Daa Da- Da a s taking with them many tives Whatever it was that started ie e uprising historians are greed that it wasn't a mere frodden Udden adden whim The Indians were wU veil eU prepared when they lunched their attack Their aders knew well what they We rere doing when they chose ort Fort ort Ridgely and the settlement f t New Ulm him us s their main ob ob- ob- ob at t is felt that the underlying cause causes es s back to 1851 before the state stateR R J t Minnesota was founded when gaties aties were negotiated with the 1 per and lower branches of the j i nation for the transfer of most J their vast lands in southern MinI Min Min- I tesota sota and in Iowa to the govern- govern nent ent in return for specified pay- pay eats The Indians were to make maker Ii r homes on a reservation cong conting con- con ting g of a mile 10 strip on both les es of the Minnesota river near rt Ridgely The fc treaty was unpopular with withy withof ny y of the Indians for they had changed a big empire for a nar- nar w strip of not very suitable land I Payments were not as large f they hey had expected Other fac- fac 8 too contributed to the hostile ling which was becoming more at a time when able- able ed men were being sent out of g state to fight in the Civil war 0 r 1 c ic LEADS UPRISING Chief Little Littie Lit Lit- tle tie Crow of the Sioux Indian tribe led more than warriors in the historic raid against New Ulm pioneer southern Minnesota l farming enter center Little Crow es escaped es- es caged U. U S. S troops sent in pursuit after the Indians were driven off in a climactic battle August 18 1862 Thirty-eight Thirty of his warriors were hanged later at Mankato l Mimi Minn Little Crow escaped that fate but later was f found und and shot Bravery of their hardy forefathers whose valiant defense once and for all destroyed the war making power of the Sioux in the Midwest and made the area safe for settlers will willbe willbe be commemorated in a huge six-day six observance August 17 12 by residents residents resi rest dents of New Ulm mm None of the actual defenders is known to survive survive survive sur sur- vive but still living are more thana than I a score of men and women who as children shared the anxious moments moments moments mo mo- ments of those trying days Some despite their advanced ages can vividly recall many harrowing ex ex- ex- ex Descendants of the defenders defenders defenders de de- de- de fenders today make up much of the city's population The observance not only will honor honor honor hon hon- or the pioneer settlers of the region but also will serve as the official homecoming for several thousand New Ulm and Brown county veterans veterans veterans vet vet- erans of World War II Attendance of residents from throughout the Midwest is expected to swell attendance attendance attend attend- ance at the six-day six program to and the city will be appropriately appropriately decked out for the event which commemorates so vital a period in m inthe inthe the history of the Plains states |