The University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor has shot down a student government request that a plaque be placed near an on-campus statue of Abraham Lincoln describing what they see as the president’s culpability in massacres of Native Americans.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank said she was not open to making the Associated Students of Madison’s desired change to the statute that has sat at the heart of the campus for over a century, student paper the Daily Cardinal reported.
Students have maintained that they want to see acknowledgement of Lincoln’s role in the December 1862 execution of Sioux prisoners who had been convicted of murder and rape by military tribunals. More than 260 men had been charged, but Lincoln commuted the death sentence of all but 38.
Those executed were found guilty of crimes committed during a six-week period of violence earlier that year between natives and white settlers in Minnesota. At least some of those killed are believed to have been innocent.
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You would not be a liberal, brainwashed college student if you weren’t thinking up someway to disrespect the history of this country.