Uprising

Uprising

NR 2023 · 97 min · History, War

After the United States Congress redirected its attention to the Civil War and stopped making treaty land payments to the Dakota Indians, causing their people to starve, an uprising began that would later be called "The Dakota Wars."

Directed by Christopher Forbes

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