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Wakandhi Topa [Four Lightning] to Gen. H. H. Sibley, Camp McClellan [Davenport, Iowa], May 18, 18631
The pale-faced people [as opposed to their red brethren] are numerous and prosperous because they … depend upon the products of the earth rather than wild game for a subsistence. This is the chief reason of the difference; but there is another. Although we are now engaged in a great war between one another, we are not, as a race, so much disposed to fight and kill one another as our red brethren.
Abraham Lincoln, Meeting with Indian Leaders, March 27, 18632
On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Although popular in parts of the Republican Party and in northern sections of the country where abolitionist sentiment was strong, the Proclamation was limited in scope and only one event in the long history of emancipation in the United States. For example, it did not apply to those slave states in the border area that were loyal to the Union, and did not affect those parts of the Confederacy under Union control. It did, however, transform the character of the war. One section of the Proclamation read that “I further declare … that such persons [freed slaves] will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.”3 The liberated would become liberators, and the enlargement of the Union Army would expand the domain of freedom.