Post by mdenney on Jan 20, 2007 15:28:02 GMT -5
It say`s was granted -was granted 80 acres
1862 The Dakota Uprising resulted in 644 white deaths. Native deaths were not recorded. 38 Dakota men were hanged at Mankato the day after Christmas. 1600 Dakota people were interned over-winter in a squalid camp on the river flats below Fort Snelling. Accounts vary about how many died (at least 130) & where they were buried.
• A removal bill was enacted in March 1863. Two months later more than 1300 Dakota Indians were shipped down the Mississippi & up the Missouri to Crow Creek, South Dakota, in boats so crowded 300 people died. Conditions were comparable to the Middle Passage of the slave trade.
• Parts of Minnesota were declared "Indian free." A bounty was offered for native scalps. At this time Minnesota troops were fighting & dying in the American South to free blacks from slavery. In fact Dakota men were in the Union Army.
• Dakota people who were neutral during the uprising or who acted as "friendlies" could neither go to a reservation nor remain near white settlements. Although "any meritorious individual…who exerted himself to save the lives of the whites in the late massacre" was granted 80 acres, in reality they became landless, homeless & were compelled to live hidden as outlaws.
• In the 1870s Indian people began to come out of invisibility & to return to their homelands from the reservations. Assimilation pressures intensified. Some Mendota Dakota "friendlies" squatted across from Fort Snelling along the south bank of the confluence of rivers where they were flooded out nearly every spring.
• 1885 Minnesota legislature allocated money for Minnehaha State Park, first state park in the US (second is Niagara falls). It was Horace Cleveland’s vision & energy that preserved the land from the falls to the fort.
• 1890-1978, Indian religious practice was outlawed in America.
(MD)
www.friendsofcoldwater.org/history/facts/facts.html
1862 The Dakota Uprising resulted in 644 white deaths. Native deaths were not recorded. 38 Dakota men were hanged at Mankato the day after Christmas. 1600 Dakota people were interned over-winter in a squalid camp on the river flats below Fort Snelling. Accounts vary about how many died (at least 130) & where they were buried.
• A removal bill was enacted in March 1863. Two months later more than 1300 Dakota Indians were shipped down the Mississippi & up the Missouri to Crow Creek, South Dakota, in boats so crowded 300 people died. Conditions were comparable to the Middle Passage of the slave trade.
• Parts of Minnesota were declared "Indian free." A bounty was offered for native scalps. At this time Minnesota troops were fighting & dying in the American South to free blacks from slavery. In fact Dakota men were in the Union Army.
• Dakota people who were neutral during the uprising or who acted as "friendlies" could neither go to a reservation nor remain near white settlements. Although "any meritorious individual…who exerted himself to save the lives of the whites in the late massacre" was granted 80 acres, in reality they became landless, homeless & were compelled to live hidden as outlaws.
• In the 1870s Indian people began to come out of invisibility & to return to their homelands from the reservations. Assimilation pressures intensified. Some Mendota Dakota "friendlies" squatted across from Fort Snelling along the south bank of the confluence of rivers where they were flooded out nearly every spring.
• 1885 Minnesota legislature allocated money for Minnehaha State Park, first state park in the US (second is Niagara falls). It was Horace Cleveland’s vision & energy that preserved the land from the falls to the fort.
• 1890-1978, Indian religious practice was outlawed in America.
(MD)
www.friendsofcoldwater.org/history/facts/facts.html