![]() ![]() Eastlick in Minnesota.” In what would eventually be known as the Lake Shetek Massacre, on August 20, 1862, about 40 Dakota Sioux men and at least one woman attacked Minnesota settlers living nearby, killing 15 and taking a dozen women and children captive. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Lavina Eastlick’s story is one episode in the history of the bloodiest massacre of the West.” - Captured by the Indians (1985) “The resolute mother, badly wounded and left for dead, revived…and with sublime courage started for a place of safety.” -A Thrilling Narrative of the Minnesota Massacre (1896) “Eastlick's story is seen by whites as the prototypical heroic story of a woman during the war.” - Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees (2002) “John Eastlick handed his wife a large butcher’s knife and told her not to hesitate to use it if necessary.” -Over The Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 (1993) How did this heroic Minnesota pioneer woman survive four musket ball wounds and being beaten and left for dead, to eventually reunite with her two surviving children after a harrowing journey? In 1864, Lake Shetek Massacre survivor Lavina Day Eastlick (1833-1923) would publish a chilling first-hand narrative of her fight for survival in her book titled “Thrilling Incidents of the Indian War of 1862: Being a Personal Narrative of the Outrages and Horrors Witnessed by Mrs. ![]()
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