To banish forever : a secret society, the Ho-Chunk, and ethnic cleansing in Minnesota /

Coats, Cathy,

To banish forever : a secret society, the Ho-Chunk, and ethnic cleansing in Minnesota / Cathy Coats. - ix, 164 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An acknowledgment of land, people, and institutions -- Introduction: hidden history preserved -- The people of the big voice -- The takeover of Ho-Chunk homelands -- Ho-Chunk removals in Minnesota territory -- The theft of Minnesota and the call for extermination -- Mankato Men and the secret society tradition -- The knights of the forest -- The banishment of the Ho-Chunk from Minnesota -- Ethnic cleansing and the forgotten legacy.

"In 1863, after the end of the US-Dakota War, a group of white men in Mankato, Minnesota, formed a secret society, pledging to expel the Ho-Chunk people from the nearby Blue Earth reservation with the goal of claiming for themselves some of the richest farmland in the world." -- Page 4 of cover.

9781681342559 1681342553

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Ho-Chunk Indians--History.--Minnesota
Ho-Chunk Indians--Crimes against--Minnesota.
Indians of North America--History.--Minnesota
Genocide--History.--Minnesota
Forced migration--History.--Minnesota


Minnesota--Ethnic relations.
United States--Ethnic relations.

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