Dakota Sioux Flashcards
What did Americans establish and when
trading posts on Missouri in 1830
Who are the Dakota and who were they
were Native Americans are now Native Canadians
What did traders so to the Sioux
compete and push each other off of land
What happened to the Sioux in 1850
a gold rush and many miners came through there land making them upset and they killed one
all of their food was disappearing and diseases were popping up everywhere
What did a Sioux man do in 1854
took a Mormons cow, killed it, and ate it
Who was General Grattan
a Indian hater who killed a bunch of Sioux for taking the cow
Grattan Massacre
Man stole a cow so Gratten went after him, killed him, gratten was killed, military started showing up so the Indians flee to Canada in 1854
Who was Andrew Myrik and what happened to him
he gave them a job but no money to purchase food and he told them to eat grass and cow patties
He was found dead with grass and cow patties in his mouth
When was the Sioux uprising
1862
What happened to the Sioux that didn’t flee
they were moved onto worthless land starved into signing a treaty
Who is the great white mother
the queen
Where did the Dakota flee to
Fort Gary in Manitoba for protection
What happened when they got to Manitoba
Metis didn’t want them
Gov didn’t want them
Assin & Ojibway didn’t want them
Settlers didn’t want them
so they got pushed out of fort Garry
What happened at the Black Hills
It was Dakota land but there was a gold rush there but the Dakota wouldn’t let them in
miners pushed their way in and the Sioux killed them
what happened in the USA in 1876
General Custer went to go fight the Sioux but underestimates them and is killed in the battle of Little Big Horn
Where did Sitting Bull settle
along the Qu’Appelle Valley
3 things the Dakota have
1.) Always attempted to direct their own pace & direction of change.
2.) Never “sacrificed” their ways
3.) Proved adept at developing innovative strategies suitable to local conditions
What does self government do for FN
Brings FN out from under the Indian Act, with greater control over decisions affecting their communities within the Canadian
What can’t the self governing nations do
pass laws
What will the self-government do for the Dakota Sioux
greater control over the decisions that affect its community members
What does the Canadian government call the Dakota
American Indians who came to Canada as refugees in the 1860’s
Why can’t the Dakotas have treaty status
the Canadian gov thinks they aren’t Canadian Aboriginal people but American
When was the Dakota war of Uprising and what happened as a result
1862
Not a success
1000 Dakota arrived outside Fort Garry on the Red River asking for refuge from the American Military