World News | Robert K Elder, New York Times | Tuesday December 14, 2010
On December 26, 1862, thirty-eight doomed Dakota Indians wailed and danced atop the gallows, waiting for the trapdoors to drop beneath them. The square scaffold, built here to accommodate the largest mass execution in United States history, swayed under their weight."It seemed that the purpose of the singing and dancing was only to sustain each oth...
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