From: Craig Olson <olson-AT-kih.net>
Subject: Re: M-I: Native American land claims
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 98 03:52:06 PST


Lou G.'s example of Confederate influence in the 1862 Sioux
uprising seems to me to bring up the question of where can an
oppressed nation look for allies.  I think that the influence here
wasnot Confederate as such, but Copperhead Democrats who
were making promises of a better deal and spreading the idea
that the Lincoln administration was ready to fall militarily. I'm not
sure how much contact Little Crow and his followers had with
the English, but London wasn't backing Lincoln.  Given the
perceived weakness of the Washington government ,troops from 
Minnesota being sent south, and the desperate conditions they were
living in at the time, an armed struggle seemed to be the answer.


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