After listening to the Podcast Scene on Radio: Season 2: Seeing White: Little War on the PrairieLinks to an external site., please answer the following questions in complete sentences. WITH CITATIONS IN MLA STYLE: For the podcast listeners: (Author, Timestamp-Timestamp) For reading the transcript (Author, page #)
The day after Christmas 1862, Minnesota executed what number of Dakota (Sioux) Warriors? This war is the largest mass execution in Minnesota history. Who was the president who ordered that execution? Is this consistent with what you know about this President? Explain.
What was the origin of the conflict between the Natives and the white settlers? How is it explained on the historic monument? What parts of it seems oversimplified to you? What is missing from this story?
What was Thomas Jefferson’s role in creating a legal architecture for obtaining title to the land from the Native people? Why was this strategy employed?
By 1850, the Dakota outnumbered the white people 5 to 1. By 1860, it was the converse ratio, with an explosion of the white population. Naturally, the white and the Dakota people began integrated families. Who was Henry Sibly? Explain how he operated as an intersectional figure between Dakota and white settler culture.
Who was Little Crow? What was his argument? How does this vignette reflect the diversity (“factions”) of opinions in the Dakota community within the state of Minnesota? Why do some historians dispute the characterization of the Dakota War as a “Native nation versus the U.S. government” formal military event?
Thinking of Worcester v. Georgia (1832)Links to an external site. [you learned this from lecture and reading, not this podcast] what are similarities and differences between the Dakota War incident and the fight leading up to the Trail of Tears?
What examples of Indian “integration” with white culture is a social and economic pressure placed upon the Dakota in Minnesota in similar ways to that same pressure placed upon the Cherokee in Georgia? Give examples of this “assimilation” that white culture expected the Natives to adopt as proof of their “civility.”
Henry Sibly’s journal documents his bitterness at the outcome of the Dakota War. Explain how he characterizes the Dakota, people with whom he once considered family. What does he suggest the Dakota could have done differently in order for the war to have been avoided?
How was justice dispensed in the Dakota war conflict? Contrast this to the legal battles in Georgia regarding the Cherokee. In what ways are these the same outcomes?
Explain what the elementary school teacher says about the Dakota War?In what ways is this narrative problematic? Explain what really happened versus what the teacher said.
Summarize the landmark SCOTUS case of McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020)Links to an external site., This is another case where property is at issue, intersecting with a criminal incident involving Native people. What does the court rule in this case? How does “jurisdiction” over one’s own land govern U.S. legal systems of justice today?
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Link to the podcast https://sceneonradio.org/episode-35-little-war-on-the-prairie-seeing-white-part-5/
Question 6 source link: https://www.oyez.org/cases/1789-1850/31us515
Question 11 source link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/us/supreme-court-oklahoma-mcgirt-creek-nation.html
