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 * **September 28, 1862** || **Sibley appoints a five-member military commission to "try summarily" Dakota for "murder and other outrages" committed against Americans. Sixteen trials take place the same day. Ten Dakota are convicted and sentenced to be hanged, six are acquitted. Over the next six weeks, 393 Dakota are tried.** ||
 * **October 14, 1862** || **At President Lincoln's cabinet meeting, the ongoing Dakota trials are discussed. Lincoln and several cabinet members are disturbed by General Pope's report on the trials and planned executions, and move to prevent precipitous action.** ||
 * **October 17, 1862** || **General Pope tells Sibley that "the President directs that no executions be made without his sanction."** ||
 * **November 3, 1862** || **The last of 393 trials is conducted, with 42 trials taking place on the last day. In all, 323 Dakota are convicted and 303 are sentenced to be hanged. All but 8 of those acquitted remained imprisoned at Camp Release.** ||
 * **November 10, 1862** || **Pope forwards to the President names of those condemned. Lincoln asks for "a full and complete record of their convictions" and "a careful statement" indicating "the more guilty and influential of the culprits."** ||
 * **November 15, 1862** || **Pope forwards records of the trials to President Lincoln, together with a letter urging Lincoln to authorize execution of all of the condemned and warning of mob violence if the executions did not go forward.** ||
 * **Late November, 1862** || **Rev. Riggs and Bishop Whipple urge clemency for Dakota involved in battles and executions only for those proven to have committed rape or killed women or children.** ||


 * **December 6, 1862** || **President Lincoln issues an order allowing only 39 of the planned 300 executions to go forward. The execution of one additional condemned man is suspended later after new evidence casts doubt upon his guilt.** ||

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This is another example of unfair trials in america. Although this does not involve people beleiving false things, it is because the people discriminated against Native Americans just like they discriminated against witches in the 16th century.

**Arab Americans Call Airport Profiling ‘Unconstitutional’** New America Media, News Report, Esther M. Gentile, Posted: Jan 13, 2010 WASHINGTON -- Intensified airport screening of citizens from 14 nations who are heading to the United States is “basically a proxy for racial profiling,” a spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Monday.

In a briefing organized by the Arab American Institute, representatives from Arab-American and civil rights groups voiced concerns about the new regulations announced Jan. 3 by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Individuals traveling from or through Afghanistan, Algeria, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen will be automatically subjected to enhanced screening procedures, including full body searches and luggage inspection, before boarding inbound flights to the United States.

Michael German, a national security policy counsel with the ACLU Washington legislative office, criticized the policy of full-body pat downs or body scans for citizens of the 14 countries, most of them predominantly Muslim.

"Basically there are three parts to it,” German said. “One, that it’s unconstitutional, two, that it’s ineffective and three that, particularly in the case of terrorism, it’s actually counterproductive.

"And our concern is that it does, actually, violate American values," said German, a former FBI agent, referring to the “secondary automatic screening” policy.

“It’s basically a proxy for racial profiling, and will be viewed as a proxy for racial profiling,” he said.

The Obama administration announced the policy after the thwarted terrorist attempt on Christmas Day when a Nigerian man attempted to blow up an airliner that was about to land in Detroit.

Dr. James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, cautioned that the security measures could have a cooling effect on U.S. relations with those countries.

“It’s not the bad guy who gets affected,” he said. “It’s everybody from those countries that wants to come and visit or that wants to come and do business or that wants to come and study, or that wants to come simply because they’ve always want to come to America – who now either go through an ordeal before they come, or simply make the decision not to come.”

Jumana Musa, policy director of the Rights Working Group, also warned against using broad sweeping measures when more precise tools may be more effective and less provocative.

“When the government broadly targets an entire community,” she asked, “are we really actually making ourselves safer?”

This article tells about the racial profiling of arab americans. Just like the salem witch trials even though there was no evidence that the people did anything wrong they were takin in and searched.

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This a website for witches in Columbus, Ohio. This shows that some people really think they are witches and that not all of them are bad. In the crucible they thought that all witches dealt with the devil.