Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments ; Preface ; Introduction: Beginning at an End ; Part One: The War; 1. A War and Its Language; 2. Spark, Fuel and Fire ; 3. The Acton Murders ; 4. "Over the earth I come" ; 5. "My heart is hardened" ; Part Two: The Trials; 6. "Ferreting out and punishing the guilty"; 7. The Trials Begin
8. Questions of Legality 9. "A species of domestic rebellion" ; 10. Due Process and the Lack Thereof ; 11. The Rush to Judgment ; 12. Violation of the Law: Sibley's Error ; Part Three: The Reckoning; 13. March to the Gallows; 14. Mass Punishment ; 15. The Executions
16. Concentration Camps and Ethnic Cleansing 17. The Later Military Commission Trials ; Part Four: The Controversies; 18. Crimes or Culture?; 19. "The most horrible and nameless outrages" ; 20. "A fair fight": Crimes That Were Not Crimes ; 21. Exaggeration, Errors and Evidence: The Atrocity Debate
22. The Power of the Self-Perpetuating MythPart Five: The Aftermath; 23. Misspelled Names, Misplaced Records and Mistaken Identities; 24. Confusion and Contradictions ; 25. Oral Histories ; 26. Victims of Every Kind ; 27. After the Storm ; Conclusion ; Notes on Sources ; Appendix: The Creation of Military Commissions ; Chapter Notes ; Bibliography
Summary
"This book examines the Dakota War trials from the perspective of 19th century military law. The author discusses the causes and far-reaching consequences of the war, claims of widespread atrocities, the modern debate over the role of culture in lawful warfare and how the war has been depicted by historians"-- Provided by publisher
