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Drawings of Paul Holy Track, Philip Ireland, and Alec Coudotte, in 1897
On November 14, 1897, three Native American men—Alec Coudotte, Philip Ireland, and Paul Holy Track—were lynched.
Lynching
[edit]Because they were held in Bismarck, North Dakota, two men were spared from the mob: Frank Blackhawk and George Defender.[1]
The murder of Coudotte, Ireland, and Holy Track was the only multiple lynching in North Dakota history.[1] They were lynched in Williamsport, North Dakota, then the seat of Emmons County, just across the Missouri River from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. [1]
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b c Vyzralek 1990, p. 23.
Bibliography
[edit]- Beidler, Peter G. (2014). Murdering Indians: A documentary history of the 1897 killings that inspired Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. ISBN 9780786475643.
- Vyzralek, Frank E. (1990). "Murder in masquerade: A commentary on lynching and mob violence in North Dakota's past, 1882-1931". North Dakota History. 57 (1, Winter).