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Launched TUESDAY December 24, 2019 on www.zReportage.com Story #719: Dakotas Ride: Dakota Indian horseback riders and support teams gather each year in South Dakota for an annual 325 mile memorial journey to southern Minnesota. Their ride will end in Mankato on Dec. 26, the 150th anniversary of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. On that day in 1862, 38 Dakota men were hanged from a single gallows platform in downtown Mankato in retribution for the US-Dakota war. The horseback ride will grow as it moves east, with more groups joining in. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging and later, two chief's following their uprising against the U.S. government after the U.S. failed to honor land treaties, delayed federal payments to starving tribes and local white settlers rejected tribes' offers to buy food on credit. After the war, the Dakotas were expelled to South Dakota and Nebraska, and their reservations in Minnesota abolished. Jim Miller, a Vietnam veteran and descendant of the Dakotas, started the ride in 2005, to bring the Dakota people together. The ride is to raise awareness to the significance impact of the mass hanging, and to bring reconciliation among all people of the region so that they may move forward in a positive way and experience the beauty in the history and their culture.
© Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMA Wire
A rider and his sweaty horse take a break during a stop at the South Dakota-Minnesota border on Wednesday, the 8th day and 167 mile of a 325-mile Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride to Mankato, Minnesota, site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakota Indians and later, two chiefs following their uprising against the U.S. government after the U.S. failed to honor land treaties, delayed federal payments to starving tribes and local white settlers rejected tribes offers to buy food on credit. After the war, the Dakotas were expelled to South Dakota and Nebraska, and their reservations in Minnesota abolished.
© Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMA Wire
Dakota riders, continue their journey through Vesta Minnesota on Saturday, the 11th day and 259 mile of a 325-mile Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride to Mankato, Minnesota, site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakota Indians and later, two chiefs following their uprising against the U.S. government after the U.S. failed to honor land treaties, delayed federal payments to starving tribes and local white settlers rejected tribes offers to buy food on credit. After the war, the Dakotas were expelled to South Dakota and Nebraska, and their reservations in Minnesota abolished.
© Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMA Wire
Dakota riders, continue their journey through Redwood Minnesota on Saturday, the 11th day and 276 mile of a 325-mile Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride to Mankato, Minnesota, site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakota Indians and later, two chiefs following their uprising against the U.S. government after the U.S. failed to honor land treaties, delayed federal payments to starving tribes and local white settlers rejected tribes offers to buy food on credit. After the war, the Dakotas were expelled to South Dakota and Nebraska, and their reservations in Minnesota abolished.
© Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMA Wire
A Dakota rider and little sister, recover one of their horses that escaped from the corral during the night, at Vesta, Minnesota on Saturday, the 11th day and 259 mile of a 325-mile Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride to Mankato, Minnesota, site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakota Indians and later, two chiefs following their uprising against the U.S. government after the U.S. failed to honor land treaties, delayed federal payments to starving tribes and local white settlers rejected tribes offers to buy food on credit. After the war, the Dakotas were expelled to South Dakota and Nebraska, and their reservations in Minnesota abolished.
© Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMA Wire
Dakota riders, continue their journey through Vesta Minnesota on Saturday, the 11th day and 259 mile of a 325-mile Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride to Mankato, Minnesota, site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakota Indians and later, two chiefs following their uprising against the U.S. government after the U.S. failed to honor land treaties, delayed federal payments to starving tribes and local white settlers rejected tribes offers to buy food on credit. After the war, the Dakotas were expelled to South Dakota and Nebraska, and their reservations in Minnesota abolished.
© Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMA Wire
WILFRED KEEBLE, leads the dance to fellow riders and middle schoolers at RTR Middle school after their arrival to Russell, Minnesota on Thursday, the 9th day and 203 mile of a 325-mile Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride to Mankato, Minnesota, site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakota Indians and later, two chiefs following their uprising against the U.S. government after the U.S. failed to honor land treaties, delayed federal payments to starving tribes and local white settlers rejected tribes offers to buy food on credit. After the war, the Dakotas were expelled to South Dakota and Nebraska, and their reservations in Minnesota abolished.
© Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMA Wire
Dakota riders, continue their journey through Redwood Minnesota on Saturday, the 11th day and 276 mile of a 325-mile Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride to Mankato, Minnesota, site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakota Indians and later, two chiefs following their uprising against the U.S. government after the U.S. failed to honor land treaties, delayed federal payments to starving tribes and local white settlers rejected tribes offers to buy food on credit. After the war, the Dakotas were expelled to South Dakota and Nebraska, and their reservations in Minnesota abolished.
© Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMA Wire
Riders continue their journey through Pipestone Minnesota on day 9 and 203 miles into the 325-mile Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride to Mankato, Minnesota, site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakota Indians and later, two chiefs following their uprising against the U.S. government after the U.S. failed to honor land treaties, delayed federal payments to starving tribes and local white settlers rejected tribes' offers to buy food on credit. After the war, the Dakotas were expelled to South Dakota and Nebraska, and their reservations in Minnesota abolished.
© Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMA Wire
A Dakota rider and his horse struggle on a icy road near Flandreau, South Dakota on Wednesday, the 8th day and 160 mile of a 325-mile Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride to Mankato, Minnesota, site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakota Indians and later, two chiefs following their uprising against the U.S. government after the U.S. failed to honor land treaties, delayed federal payments to starving tribes and local white settlers rejected tribes offers to buy food on credit. After the war, the Dakotas were expelled to South Dakota and Nebraska, and their reservations in Minnesota abolished.
© Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMA Wire
A young Dakota rider feeds the horses at a ranch in Vesta at the end of the day jouney, on Friday, the 10th day and 236 mile of a 325-mile Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride to Mankato, Minnesota, site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakota Indians and later, two chiefs following their uprising against the U.S. government after the U.S. failed to honor land treaties, delayed federal payments to starving tribes and local white settlers rejected tribes offers to buy food on credit. After the war, the Dakotas were expelled to South Dakota and Nebraska, and their reservations in Minnesota abolished.
© Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMA Wire
A group of Dakota riders continue their journey out of Marshall, on Friday, the 10th day and 236 mile of a 325-mile Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride to Mankato, Minnesota, site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakota Indians and later, two chiefs following their uprising against the U.S. government after the U.S. failed to honor land treaties, delayed federal payments to starving tribes and local white settlers rejected tribes offers to buy food on credit. After the war, the Dakotas were expelled to South Dakota and Nebraska, and their reservations in Minnesota abolished.
© Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMA Wire
Riders shake hands with students of RTR middle school where they shared their experiences after their arrival to Russell, Minnesota on Thursday, the 9th day and 203 mile of a 325-mile Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride to Mankato, Minnesota, site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakota Indians and later, two chiefs following their uprising against the U.S. government after the U.S. failed to honor land treaties, delayed federal payments to starving tribes and local white settlers rejected tribes offers to buy food on credit. After the war, the Dakotas were expelled to South Dakota and Nebraska, and their reservations in Minnesota abolished.
© Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMA Wire
Riders on route 34 at the South Dakota-Minnesota border on Wednesday, the 8th day and 167 mile of a 325-mile Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride to Mankato, Minnesota, site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakota Indians and later, two chiefs following their uprising against the U.S. government after the U.S. failed to honor land treaties, delayed federal payments to starving tribes and local white settlers rejected tribes offers to buy food on credit. After the war, the Dakotas were expelled to South Dakota and Nebraska, and their reservations in Minnesota abolished.
© Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMA Wire
WILFRED KEEBLE takes the feathers flag from a Dakota rider during a stop at the South Dakota-Minnesota border on Wednesday, the 8th day and 167 mile of a 325-mile Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride to Mankato, Minnesota, site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakota Indians and later, two chiefs following their uprising against the U.S. government after the U.S. failed to honor land treaties, delayed federal payments to starving tribes and local white settlers rejected tribes offers to buy food on credit. After the war, the Dakotas were expelled to South Dakota and Nebraska, and their reservations in Minnesota abolished.
© Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMA Wire
Dakota riders continue their journey through Morton Minnesota on Sunday, the 12th day and 276 mile of a 325-mile Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride to Mankato, Minnesota, site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakota Indians and later, two chiefs following their uprising against the U.S. government after the U.S. failed to honor land treaties, delayed federal payments to starving tribes and local white settlers rejected tribes offers to buy food on credit. After the war, the Dakotas were expelled to South Dakota and Nebraska, and their reservations in Minnesota abolished.
© Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMA Wire
Miguel Juarez Lugo

MIGUEL JUAREZ LUGO has more than 20 years of experience as a photojournalist and has covered stories in Mexico, the U.S., East and Central Africa and the Middle East. His photos have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, NPR, Paris Match, El Pais, O Globo and Gara, among other outlets. He was the first Mexican photographer to be based in the U.S. for the Mexican newspapers Reforma and El Norte, covering the White House and Congress. He has worked extensively in Kenya, Ethiopia, DR Congo, Somalia, Sudan, Egypt, Gaza, and most recently, Syria. Miguel is interested in the power of photography to communicate the humanity, emotion and complexity of a given moment, always with dignity and honesty, and always with the goal of bringing the viewer and subject closer together. He is currently based in New York and Washington, D.C. (Credit Image: © Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMAPRESS.com):719


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