Massacre in Minnesota

Gary Clayton Anderson, a professor of history at the University of Oklahoma, has written about what was once known as the Great Sioux Uprising of 1862, most notably in Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux (1986) and Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 (1988; edited with Alan R. Woolworth). Yet he remained haunted by the “why” of those events. As he writes in his preface, “I failed to comprehend how such a tragic event could have transpired when, for nearly two centuries, the Dakota people had been at peace (p. ix). Massacre in Minnesota is his attempt to answer that lingering question. Most often such quests lead authors to what I call “the shock of discovery”: not knowing about a given event prior to research and therefore assuming no one else knew. The most recent noted example of this genre is David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon (2017), about the Osage reign of terror. Massacre in Minnesota is not written in this way; it is, instead, a mature work by a serious scholar

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