Dakota Conflict Flashcards
Where was the Dakota reservation located
A 10 mile strip of land on the south side of the Minnesota river
What is an annuity
Annual payment of food and money that the government promised in return for their land
Who was the Indian agent at the upper and lower Sioux agencies
Thomas Galbraith
List the jobs of the Indian agent
3
Distributed annuities
Make Dakota accept white culture
Oversees the government workers (blacksmith,doctor,carpenters)
How did the traders treat the Indians
Traders ran the stores but cheated the Indians
Who was the unpopular trader at the lower Sioux agency
Andrew Myrick
What did he say about the Indians when they needed food
“So far as I am concerned if they are hungry they can eat grass”
What was the main goal of missionaries
To get the Indians to convert to Christianity
Stephen Riggs
Describe the traditional Dakota
3
Lived in tipis and birch lodge villages
Maintained culture resisted white culture
Little crow p,blue earth,red banner
Describe the farm Dakota
4
Lived in wood or brick houses
Accepted white ways and became farmers
Dressed like white people and men cut their hair
Wounded man
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.”
Big Eagle
When dId the Dakota conflict begin
August 17th,1862
Where did the Dakota conflict begin
Acton
What happened in Acton
4 Dakota killed 5 whites fighting over eggs
Why did the Indians think it was a good time to fight the white settlers
Cause the soldiers are gone fighting the civil war
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”
Little Crow
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.”
Wounded Man
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.”
Mary Shwandt
What famous Minnesotan led the well trained soldiers into the prairie to fight the Dakota
Colonel Henry Sibley
In the spring of 1863, the Dakota were taken from fort Snelling and sent where
Crow Creek, South Dakota
How did they get there
Steamboat and train
In 1866 the government finally let the banished Dakota move where
Nebraska, santee reservation
Name the young mother who survived the Dakota conflict
Alomina hurd
Name the Dakota farmer who never fought in battles, but led his family and ten settlers to fort Ridgely for safety
Lorenzo Lawrence
