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The ferocity with which the Lincoln administration conducted war was not restricted to the South.
林肯当局在战争中的暴行 并不局限于南方
Lincoln had gone to war to prevent slavery expanding into the West,
林肯不惜一战以阻止奴隶制西进
and defend the free soil ideology of his Republican Party.
同时捍卫共和党的土地自由思想
But the soil and the land of the West could only be made free for white settlers
但若要使西部土地能为白人殖民者所任意自取
if first cleared of its original owners,the Native Americans.
首先须得驱除西部的原住民 美洲印第安人
By the late 1850s, the Santee Sioux had been pushed into a reservation in the state of Minnesota.
19世纪50年代后期 美洲原住民苏族的分支桑提人 已被赶入明尼苏达州下的一块保留地
They had sold their tribal lands to the US government for 1.5 million dollars,
他们部落的土地被美国政府以150万美元的价格收购
a bill that Lincoln's administration had not paid.
林肯当局却从未支付过这笔账款
In the late summer of 1862, at the height of the Civil War,
1862年夏末 内战正酣时
the rains failed and the Sioux's crops wilted in the fields.
天久旱而雨不至 苏族人的耕地上作物枯萎
The Sioux were literally starving.
饥荒降临到苏族人头上
They rise up against the reservation system,they kill a number of white settlers,it's a very, very violent encounter.
他们揭竿而起 反对居留地系统 杀死大批白人殖民者 这是一次极其血腥的会面
The federal government responds by sending General John Pope to Minnesota to end the uprising.
联盟政府采取回应 派遣将军约翰·波普 前往明尼苏达镇压起义
General Pope is a general who,in the Civil War in the East,has turned the war into hard war.
正是这位波普将军 将内战东部战场的战役转变成了攻坚战
He's a very tough cookie,he talks about going to Minnesota to exterminate the Sioux men, women, and children,
这人是个硬骨头 他表示要去明尼苏达斩尽杀绝 苏族的男男女女 幼童稚子
and when he gets there he puts the rebellion down brutally and quickly.
当他抵达之后 他惨酷而迅速地平定了叛乱
