In 1862 the largest Indian uprising in American history occurred in southern Minnesota.
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Told from the point of view of Judith Raveling, a young woman widowed by the uprising, Scarlet Plume draws on the brutal history of the conflict from beginning to end.
Women were taken captive.
Hundreds of whites were killed.
Enraged Sioux attempted to throw off the broken treaties that still bound them and to avenge the insults and depredations they had been forced to bear.
In 1862 the largest Indian uprising in American history occurred in southern Minnesota