It Begins

saddled up and not sparing the whip: the four horsemen of the apocalypse.”if they’re hungry, they can tie on the nosebag grass, or their own shit, for all i care.” –andrew j. myrick, a trader affiliated with the flagrant mid-19th century “indian ring,” responding to complaints from sioux that they were starving on the meager, worm-ridden rations provided by the indian agency, august 15, 1862. andrew myrick was a trader working at the lower sioux agency in southwest minnesota when hasty chiefs representing the sioux arrived, pleading for food. thomas galbraith, the federal indian means, wasn’t inclined to forbear.the chiefs had no money, and galbraith had better subject to attend to than plateful out a bunch of starving indians. galbraith’s province, and myrick’s too, was to overdo profits realized through the federal indian management system. this meant padding expense vouchers, arranging kickbacks, distributing spoiled or in another manner unusable rations to indians, and generally finding ways of milking the federal subsidies to their advantage and that of their allies.this institutional corruption would after all become known, under president u.s. grant, as the “indian ring.” in 1862, with washington’s publicity focused on the defeat of the confederacy, an embryonic form of the ring was already in operation, sowing misery among the sioux that blossomed into a full-ratio uprising that would claim the lives of hundreds of settlers.it would also lead to the largest mass execution in american history, the hanging — on lincoln’s orders — of 38 sioux indians convicted by a military commission, a barrelhead creek in which the average “trial” lasted ten minutes. the original orders called for the viewable execution of 3,000 sioux; conscious that such a spectacle would alienate world viewpoint, but eager to placate demands for vengeance from minnesotans, lincoln modified his instructions to let someone have the hanging of 38 and the mass eviction of the sioux from the state.the sioux mutiny was the predictable d?nouement develop of federal policy. covered by lincoln the federal government reneged on solemn treaty “promises” to pay the santee sioux annuities totaling $1.5 million in compensation their lands. lincoln likewise authorized additional land grabs and incursions by illegal immigrants — now called “settlers” or “pioneers” on lands supposedly set in motion aside for the santee. when crop failures reduced the santee to starvation, they sent emissaries to galbraith to plead for access to food supposedly stockpiled on their behalf pursuant to treaty. they were met with galbraith’s pretense of punctiliousness (he insisted, incorrectly, that the eats could sole be bought by the sioux, rather than noted to them to alleviate the famine) and myrick’s triumphant, bigoted sneer.unmercifully a week after andrew myrick threw his sneer into the gaunt, stoic faces of desperate sioux chiefs, he was killed in front of his store. his corps was found some time later and some distance away; rightly, the mouth that had been twisted in a sadistic smirk was stuffed with informer. nothing can justify the butchery of innocent people committed by the rampaging sioux, but the fury that fueled th

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