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We-Chank-Wash-ta-don-pee (Dakota: Wičháhpi Waštédaŋpi, Good Little Stars), or more commonly Chaska (pronounced chas-KAY) (died December 26, 1862 [1]) was a Native American of the Dakota who was executed in a mass hanging near Mankato, Minnesota, in the wake of the Dakota War of 1862, despite the fact that President Abraham Lincoln had commuted his death sentence days earlier.
The Dakota (pronounced , Dakota: Dakȟóta or Dakhóta) are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government in North America. They compose two of the three main subcultures of the Sioux people, and are typically divided into the Eastern Dakota and the Western Dakota.
The war lasted for five weeks and resulted in the deaths of hundreds of settlers and the displacement of thousands more. [8] In the aftermath, the Dakota people were exiled from their homelands, forcibly sent to reservations in the Dakotas and Nebraska, and the State of Minnesota confiscated and sold all their remaining land in the state. [8]
This is a list of people executed in Minnesota as both a territory and a state. Between Minnesota 's first recorded execution in 1854 (which occurred while it was a territory ) and the state's final recorded execution in 1906, there were at least 70 legal executions in Minnesota.
Andrew Myrick (c.1860) Andrew J. Myrick (May 28, 1832 – August 18, 1862) was a trader, who with his Dakota wife (Winyangewin/Nancy Myrick), operated stores in southwest Minnesota at two Native American agencies serving the Dakota (referred to as Sioux at the time) near the Minnesota River.
Inkpaduta (Dakota: Iŋkpáduta, variously translated as "Red End," "Red Cap," or "Scarlet Point") (about 1797 – 1881) was a war chief of the Wahpekute band of the Dakota (Eastern or Santee Dakota) during the 1857 Spirit Lake Massacre and later Western Sioux actions against the United States Army in the Dakota Territory, Wyoming and Montana. [1]
The Dakotas, also known as simply Dakota, is a collective term for the U.S. states of North Dakota and South Dakota. It has been used historically to describe the Dakota Territory , and is still used for the collective heritage, [ 2 ] culture, geography, [ 3 ] fauna, [ 4 ] sociology, [ 5 ] economy, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and cuisine [ 8 ] of the two states.
On October 29, 2018, 56-year-old Rodney Berget was put to death via lethal injection at South Dakota State Penitentiary, six years after the execution of his accomplice Eric Robert. He became the fourth person to be executed in South Dakota since 2007 and the 19th person to have his death sentence carried out in South Dakota since 1877.