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In the spring of 2005, Jim Miller, a Native spiritual leader and
Vietnam veteran, found himself in a dream riding on horseback across the
great plains of South Dakota. Just before he awoke, he arrived at a
riverbank in Minnesota and saw 38 of his Dakota ancestors hanged. At the
time, Jim knew nothing of the largest mass execution in United States
history, ordered by Abraham Lincoln on December 26, 1862. "
