@Book{1885853564,
author="Coats, Cathy",
title="To banish forever: a secret society, the Ho-Chunk, and ethnic cleansing in Minnesota",
year="2024",
publisher="Minnesota Historical Society Press",
address="St. Paul",
keywords="Ho-Chunk Indians; Minnesota; History; Crimes against; Indian reservations; Indians of North America; Genocide; Forced migration; HISTORY / United States / 19th Century; HISTORY / Indigenous / Colonial History {\&} Interaction with Nations, Tribes, Bands {\&} Communities; HISTORY / United States / State {\&} Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide {\&} War Crimes; Ethnic relations; United States; Minnesota - Relations interethniques; {\'E}tats-Unis - Relations interethniques",
contents="An acknowledgment of land, people, and institutions -- Introduction: hidden history preserved -- The people of the big voice -- The takeover of Ho-Chunk homelands -- Ho-Chunk removals in Minnesota territory -- The theft of Minnesota and the call for extermination -- Mankato Men and the secret society tradition -- The knights of the forest -- The banishment of the Ho-Chunk from Minnesota -- Ethnic cleansing and the forgotten legacy.",
abstract="``In 1863, after the end of the US-Dakota War, a group of white men in Mankato, Minnesota, formed a secret society, pledging to expel the Ho-Chunk people from the nearby Blue Earth reservation with the goal of claiming for themselves some of the richest farmland in the world.'' -- Page 4 of cover",
note="Cathy Coats",
note="Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-156) and index",
isbn="9781681342559",
language="English"
}