Dakota 38
Dakota 38 More Than A Documentary Filmmakers hope ride and documentary lead to healing 150 years after hangings in U.S.-Dakota War By:?Lauren Peck In May 2005, Jim Miller, a Native spiritual leader and Vietnam veteran, had a dream in which he rode across South Dakota to Mankato and witnessed his ancestors being hanged. He didn?t know it then, but after some research, he realized this dream depicted one of the largest mass executions in U.S. history, the hanging of 38 Dakota men at the end of a violent and painful moment in history, the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862.