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The ferocity with which the Lincoln administration conducted war was not restricted to the South.
林肯當局在戰爭中的暴行 并不局限于南方
Lincoln had gone to war to prevent slavery expanding into the West,
林肯不惜一戰以阻止奴隸制西進
and defend the free soil ideology of his Republican Party.
同時捍衛共和黨的土地自由思想
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為白人殖民者所任意自取
if first cleared of its original owners,the Native Americans.
首先須得驅除西部的原住民 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世紀50年代后期 美洲原住民蘇族的分支桑提人 已被趕入明尼蘇達州下的一塊保留地
They had sold their tribal lands to the US government for 1.5 million dollars,
他們部落的土地被美國政府以150萬美元的價格收購
a bill that Lincoln's administration had not paid.
林肯當局卻從未支付過這筆賬款
In the late summer of 1862, at the height of the Civil War,
1862年夏末 內戰正酣時
the rains failed and the Sioux's crops wilted in the fields.
天久旱而雨不至 蘇族人的耕地上作物枯萎
The Sioux were literally starving.
饑荒降臨到蘇族人頭上
They rise up against the reservation system,they kill a number of white settlers,it's a very, very violent encounter.
他們揭竿而起 反對居留地系統 殺死大批白人殖民者 這是一次極其血腥的會面
The federal government responds by sending General John Pope to Minnesota to end the uprising.
聯盟政府采取回應 派遣將軍約翰·波普 前往明尼蘇達鎮壓起義
General Pope is a general who,in the Civil War in the East,has turned the war into hard war.
正是這位波普將軍 將內戰東部戰場的戰役轉變成了攻堅戰
He's a very tough cookie,he talks about going to Minnesota to exterminate the Sioux men, women, and children,
這人是個硬骨頭 他表示要去明尼蘇達斬盡殺絕 蘇族的男男女女 幼童稚子
and when he gets there he puts the rebellion down brutally and quickly.
當他抵達之后 他慘酷而迅速地平定了叛亂
