Dakota Conflict

Question 0

Where was the Dakota reservation located

Answer 0

A 10 mile strip of land on the south side of the Minnesota river

Question 1

What is an annuity

Answer 1

Annual payment of food and money that the government promised in return for their land

Question 2

Who was the Indian agent at the upper and lower Sioux agencies

Answer 2

Thomas Galbraith

Question 3

List the jobs of the Indian agent

3

Answer 3

Distributed annuities

Make Dakota accept white culture

Oversees the government workers (blacksmith,doctor,carpenters)

Question 4

How did the traders treat the Indians

Answer 4

Traders ran the stores but cheated the Indians

Question 5

Who was the unpopular trader at the lower Sioux agency

Answer 5

Andrew Myrick

Question 6

What did he say about the Indians when they needed food

Answer 6

“So far as I am concerned if they are hungry they can eat grass”

Question 7

What was the main goal of missionaries

Answer 7

To get the Indians to convert to Christianity

Stephen Riggs

Question 8

Describe the traditional Dakota

3

Answer 8

Lived in tipis and birch lodge villages

Maintained culture resisted white culture

Little crow p,blue earth,red banner

Question 9

Describe the farm Dakota

4

Answer 9

Lived in wood or brick houses
Accepted white ways and became farmers
Dressed like white people and men cut their hair
Wounded man

Question 10

Who was the traditional Dakota that said”if the Indians had tried to make the whites live like them,the whites would have resisted,and it was the same way with many Indians.”

Answer 10

Big Eagle

Question 11

When dId the Dakota conflict begin

Answer 11

August 17th,1862

Question 12

Where did the Dakota conflict begin

Answer 12

Acton

Question 13

What happened in Acton

Answer 13

4 Dakota killed 5 whites fighting over eggs

Question 14

Why did the Indians think it was a good time to fight the white settlers

Answer 14

Cause the soldiers are gone fighting the civil war

Question 15

What traditional Dakota said “if you strike the white people,they will turn on you and devour you and your women and little children just as the locusts in their time fall on the trees and devour all the leaves in one day”

Answer 15

Little Crow

Question 16

What farm Dakota said”we counseled ,but could do nothing to resist the hostile Indians because we were so few and they were between us and the settlements.”

Answer 16

Wounded Man

Question 17

What white settler was taken captive and said”I now knew that my family had been plundered,and I believed murdered. I was very,very wretched, and cared not too how I was killed.”

Answer 17

Mary Shwandt

Question 18

What famous Minnesotan led the well trained soldiers into the prairie to fight the Dakota

Answer 18

Colonel Henry Sibley

Question 19

In the spring of 1863, the Dakota were taken from fort Snelling and sent where

Answer 19

Crow Creek, South Dakota

Question 20

How did they get there

Answer 20

Steamboat and train

Question 21

In 1866 the government finally let the banished Dakota move where

Answer 21

Nebraska, santee reservation

Question 22

Name the young mother who survived the Dakota conflict

Answer 22

Alomina hurd

Question 23

Name the Dakota farmer who never fought in battles, but led his family and ten settlers to fort Ridgely for safety

Answer 23

Lorenzo Lawrence