President Lincoln and the Sioux Indian uprising in Minnesota in 1862

[My Name Is Kate]

I can see why the white people wanted all the Sioux hung (if they did even some of the things stated in those trial records), but that would have been just as wrong as letting them all go free. And that is why it so important that everyone is presumed "innocent until proven guilty" and that justice be determined from a fair trial with an impartial judge and jury.