People
Another term for translator
Interpreter
The US Government officials wanted this from the Dakota
Land
The movement of settlers and immigrants across North America in the 1800s
Westward Expansion
This interaction between European and Americans and the Native Americans, ended in the 1840s, after having lasted for 150 years.
The Fur Trade
Treaty negotiations between the US and the Dakota came from a place of unequal power, because the US had more of what three things
Money, People and Military Power
A U.S. Army soldier who made the first treaty with the Dakota.
Who is Zebulan Pike?
Fort Snelling
A written agreement between two or more nations
treaty
Reservation
Why was the Bdote important to the Dakota?
First territorial governor. Declared that acquiring the land of the Dakota was his first goal.
Alexander Ramsey
Some Dakota owed money to the Fur Traders. A term to represent this is....
Debt
Self ruling and independent
Sovereign
Annual payment of food and money that the US government paid to American Indians in return for their land.
Annuities
Most of the land we call Minnesota came from this land deal between the United States and France in 1803.
Henry Sibley
The first land deal in Minnesota took place in this year
1805
A part of the US that is not a state, but is organized with it's own governing leaders.
Territory
White settlers.
Who immediately rushed in and occupied the land in Minnesota after the treaties were signed?
After the treaty Pike negotiated, it went to the US Senate to ______.
Ratify (approve)
He did not want to sign the treaty of Mendota. He said "You have requested us to sign this treaty and you have told these people standing around, that it is for their benefit, but I am of a different opinion"
Red Banner
The year of the Treaty of Traverse de Sioux and Mendota.
1851
Dakota term for the place where two rivers meet.
Bdote
Missionaries and the US Government wanted the Native Americans to adopt European values and religion. This term is ....
Assimilation
Mendota.