Post by mdenney on Feb 2, 2007 3:36:32 GMT -5
Sioux Rebellion of 1862
The 1858 treaties that ceded the north strip of the Minnesota river -- and the south strip was to be allotted, which the Dakota regarded as equivalent to losing the land -- cost the leaders who agreed to it their reputations. The Traverse des Sioux treaty had not been considered honorable by many Dakota (and many whites). The Dakota were literally starving. There was nothing to hunt on their diminished lands. Crooked agents and traders withheld annuities and payments.
Although there were warehouses full of food, trader Andrew Myrick at Lower Sioux Agency would not consent to Little Crow's plea to feed the starving people. An almost accidental killing of a farm family by hungry young warriors touched off the so called "Great Sioux Uprising" of 1862. After a few victories, the people were defeated. 38 were hanged at Mankato, still the largest mass execution in U.S. history, and the rest were expelled from Minnesota to the Crow Creek reservation in south Dakota, or the Santee reservation in Nebraska.
Missing: 1863 postwar treaty with all 4 Sioux bands: All Daklota lands in Minnesota are forfeit; the right of occupancy of any land in Minnesota forfeited -- the exile treaty. 12 stat 652. Sale of all remaining Sioux lands in Minnesota 12 Stat 819
LINK TO Treaties with
Minnesota Indians and to what is said above---
www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/mn/treaties.html
The 1858 treaties that ceded the north strip of the Minnesota river -- and the south strip was to be allotted, which the Dakota regarded as equivalent to losing the land -- cost the leaders who agreed to it their reputations. The Traverse des Sioux treaty had not been considered honorable by many Dakota (and many whites). The Dakota were literally starving. There was nothing to hunt on their diminished lands. Crooked agents and traders withheld annuities and payments.
Although there were warehouses full of food, trader Andrew Myrick at Lower Sioux Agency would not consent to Little Crow's plea to feed the starving people. An almost accidental killing of a farm family by hungry young warriors touched off the so called "Great Sioux Uprising" of 1862. After a few victories, the people were defeated. 38 were hanged at Mankato, still the largest mass execution in U.S. history, and the rest were expelled from Minnesota to the Crow Creek reservation in south Dakota, or the Santee reservation in Nebraska.
Missing: 1863 postwar treaty with all 4 Sioux bands: All Daklota lands in Minnesota are forfeit; the right of occupancy of any land in Minnesota forfeited -- the exile treaty. 12 stat 652. Sale of all remaining Sioux lands in Minnesota 12 Stat 819
LINK TO Treaties with
Minnesota Indians and to what is said above---
www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/mn/treaties.html
