Trivia 7-28-15 Execution

[Trivia Master]

Regarding this nation's largest public mass execution:

a. When did the execution occur?
b. Of what ethnicity was the group of people who were executed?
c. How many were executed?
d. For what crime were they executed?

credit: @chellers

 

[MRB1863]

38 Sioux Indians were hanged in Minnesota December 26, 1862 because Indian hunting parties went off the reservation land looking for food to feed their families, one hunting group took eggs from a White settlers land

Edit - The question was asking for the official legal crime which resulted in the death penalty.

Though this was hardly a shining moment in the history of U.S. jurisprudence, the trial authorities at least had the decency to realize that they had to find some crime more serious than stealing eggs if they wanted to justify executing anybody.

 

[TinCan]

1. 16 December 1862
2. Santee Sioux Native Americans
3. 38
4. stealing eggs from a white settler (illegally going off the reservation

Edit - Though I found a couple of sources that prominently mention the date of December 16, when I read the full articles they stated unmistakably that the executions took place on December 26, not December 16.

As indicated above, the crime with which those executed were charged was more serious than stealing eggs.

Hoosier

 

[Dave G]

a. December 26, 1862
b. Santee Sioux
c. 38 executed
d. for rape & murder of white settlers during the Minnesota Uprising

 

[nextcity]

December 26, 1862
Native Americans (Santee Sioux men)
38
Murder and rape

 

[ErnieMac]

a. December 26, 1862 in Mankato MN.
b. Native American (Dakota Sioux).
c. 38.
d. Murder of Civilians and Rape (2 cases).

 

[Stony]

A-December 26, 1862
B-Dakota or Souix Indians
C-38
D-Their crime: killing 490 white settlers, including women and children, in the Santee Sioux uprising the previous August.
Source-http://www.thenation.com/article/largest-mass-execution-us-history-150-years-ago-today/

 

[GELongstreet]

a. December 26, 1862
b. Dakota
c. 38 (out of originally proposed 303)
d. murder and rape

civ·i·lized
(sĭv′ə-līzd′)
adj.
1. Having a highly developed society and culture.
2. Showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement; humane, ethical, and reasonable
...

Welcome to the civilized world ... totally bollocks.

 

[Copperhead-mi]

a. December 26, 1862
b. Sioux
c. 38
d. The original 303 Santee Sioux who originally were sentenced to death were narrowed down to any that had participated in the massacre or who had raped. Of the revised list of 39 that were scheduled to be executed 1 was pardoned by Lincoln while 29 were hanged for murder, 3 for "having shot someone," 2 for rape, 2 for participating in a massacre, 1 for mutilation, and 1 for unknown reason.

 

[FarawayFriend]

That was in the Dakota War of 1862, now called Dakota - US conflict.

a) Dec. 26th, 1862

b) People of native American descent / Dakota Indians / Sioux (sorry if one or more of the terms are not PC, I don't know that any better)

c) 38
"On December 27 President Lincoln received a telegram from Sibley: "I have the honor to inform you that the thirty-eight Indians and half-breeds, ordered by you for execution, were hung yesterday at Mankato, at 10 a.m."

d) Generally spoken for killing or maiming white settlers. In detail as follows:
"29 had been convicted of murder, three for having "shot" someone, two for participating in "massacres," and one for mutilation. As Lincoln told the Senate, only two had been convicted of rape. Curiously, the president allowed the executions of two men who were convicted merely for participating in battles. [...] Lincoln spared Godfrey, as the military commission requested, and two weeks later spared another man due to newly discovered exculpatory evidence."

All quotes from:
http://www.historynet.com/abraham-l...crimes-in-minnesotas-great-sioux-uprising.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dakota_War_of_1862&oldid=672296205

 

[MajGenl.Meade]

a. 10 a.m. on December 26th 1862

b. Dakota tribe of American Indians

c In the end, 38 were executed

d. 39 had been condemned to death for the following crimes committed during the Santee or Minnesota Sioux Uprising (Aug - Nov 1862) in which some 350 white settlers were killed: 29 for murder; 3 for having "shot" someone; two for taking part in "massacre"; 1 for mutilation; 2 for rape; 2 for taking part of battle (!). Before the executions, Lincoln pardoned one of the 39 on the basis of new evidence.

http://www.historynet.com/abraham-l...crimes-in-minnesotas-great-sioux-uprising.htm

Here's an interesting (if macabre) story.
Jean La Rue heard the gunfire and fearing the Sioux Indians, rushed to the house to grab his rifle and other belongings. He ran into the woods and found a tree that was hollow enough for him to hide in. Apparently he fell in too far, as his body was found more than half a century later.

In June 1919, Edward Gleek of Ottawa Township was cutting trees down. He got to a large white oak, and it broke as it fell. Inside was the mummified body of a man, dried and shriveled but not decayed. Along with him was $783.50, his riffle, bullet pouch, and powder horn. He also had a journal which was written in. On apparently the last day of his life, Friday, August 29, 1862, he wrote,

"Can not get out; surely must die. If ever found, send me and all my money to my mother, Suzanne La Rue, near Tarascon, in the province of Bouches Du Phone, France."

Unfortunately so much time had passed, his relatives in France could not be located

http://www.d.umn.edu/~bart0412/DIT.htm

 

[rosefiend]

The first words out of my mouth were "official or unofficial?"
a. Mankato, Minnesota
b. Santee "Sioux" Indians
c. 38
d. I was going to say "for being alive" but it's more like "for being in the way of the white settlers after they took over the Dakota's land, took their food supply, broke every treaty they had signed, created famine, then refused to relieve it." For the resulting war, 303 Indians were convicted in a five-minute trial and sentenced to death. Only 38 were hung, but the rest were banished from their homes (which the white settlers thought very convenient) to a drought-stricken area in the Dakotas where many starved to death, so technically it *was* a death sentence, but that's unofficial.

Edit - Part a of the question asked when, not where, the execution took place, so Mankato, MN is not a correct answer.

Part d of the question was asking for the official crime of which those executed were accused, so though your indignation is fully justified, your answer can't be accepted.

As I said recently in grading another question, the people who compose the questions do their best to avoid ambiguity, but it cannot always be anticipated how players will interpret a question.

Hoosier

 

[Brenal]

a. December 26 1862
b. Dakota Indians
c. 38
d. War crimes including murder, rape and theft.

 

[adisciu9]

a. December 26, 1862
b. Santee (sioux) INdians
c. 38
d. Killing 490 white settlers

 

[rhettbutler1865]

Regarding this nation's largest public mass execution:

a. When did the execution occur?
b. Of what ethnicity was the group of people who were executed?
c. How many were executed?
d. For what crime were they executed?

credit: @chellers

a) Dec. 26, 1862.......b) Dakota Indians..........c) 38...........d) killing 490 white settlers...I graduated from a private college just 11 miles North of there...

 

[ole]

a. When did the execution occur? December 26, 1862
b. Of what ethnicity was the group of people who were executed? Dakotah (Sioux)
c. How many were executed? 38
d. For what crime were they executed? Killing settlers.

 

[MaryDee]

a. December 26, 1862
b. Dakota Sioux Indians
c. 39 (300 were condemned, but Lincoln reversed the sentences of all but 39 on review)
d. Taking part in the Minnesota Sioux uprising in the summer of 1862. "Of these, 29 had been convicted of murder, three for having "shot" someone, two for participating in "massacres," and one for mutilation." http://www.historynet.com/abraham-l...crimes-in-minnesotas-great-sioux-uprising.htm

Edit - While Lincoln's original order, written on December 6, called for 39 executions, one of those executions was called off because new evidence was introduced before the execution took place. Only 38 were actually executed on December 26.

Hoosier

 

[Pat Answer]

a. Dec 26, 1862
b. Dakota Sioux
c. 38
d. "killing 490 white settlers, including women and children, in the Santee Sioux uprising the previous August."

http://www.thenation.com/article/largest-mass-execution-us-history-150-years-ago-today/

 

[ShenValleyGray]

a. December 26,1862
b. Dakota Sioux
c. 38
d. Rape and murder

 

[Boopsie]

Are pointless marches where thousands of so'll doers lives are slaughtered at say the foot of a hill considered an execution, or a general mistake?

Edit - Boopsie, the trivia game is not set up to be a forum for debate.

I don't know what incident you might have been referring to, but it would probably be best to try to initiate such a discussion in the General History forum.

If you would like to come back and play the trivia game sometime, you're more than welcome.

Hoosier