The long historical cover-ups exposed!

Based largely upon agent Thomas J. Galbraith's report of January 1863, historians assert that Little Crow, the leading Eastern Dakota chief, became a "white man"-meaning that he had thrown aside the religious views he held as a member of the Wakan Wacipi (Mystery Dance) society in order to become a farmer, wear white man's clothes, and cut his hair. But if one accepts this, it becomes difficult to explain why Little Crow would be willing lead the militant and traditional Dakotas into war with the whites of Minnesota in August 1892. One can only suppose, as some do, that Little Crow had degenerated into an ambitious politician who craved a leadership role at any cost. 

In this present work it will be seen that Galbraith's chronology of events is often misleading or inaccurate. The fact is that when he wrote his report he needed to cover up things he had done, or failed to do, that helped bring on the war. He therefore shifted suspicion of responsibility for starting the war to others, namely Little Crow and the Solders' Lodge, or Tiyotipi. Hence, an accurate understanding of Little Crow's life, and his decision to go to war, has been impossible. It must be reconsidered in the light of Galbraith's deliberate attempt to malign him and make him the villian. It must also be reconsidered in light of a decade-long period of rampant corruption by numerous Indian Department and agency officials, senators and congressmen, governors and traders, who stole, manipulated, or coerced the Dakotas out of virtually everything they possessed. Although 140 years have passed, historians have failed to distinguish as it were the wheat from the tares...Now, for the first time it is possible to read and a revised and fair account of Little Crow and the Dakota War!