Tensions Rise
Status of Government payments that led to the Dakota becoming angry
What is annuities were late?
How were farm and traditional Dakota different?
What is farm Dakota assimilated to be more like European Americans where traditional Dakota continued to live the way they have for centuries?
Who were traditional Dakota?
What is Dakota who keep their beliefs and rituals, and traveled off the reservation to hunt?
Status of Food Sources that led to increasing tensions between Dakota and U.S.
What is hunting wasn't allowed off reservations and annuities were late?
How did the Dakota Homelands change in the 1850s and 1860s?
What is homelands filled with farms and towns?
Why did Dakota choose to fight when they did?
What is the Civil War was occupying the U.S. military?
What is an annuity?
What is an annual payment of food and money from the U.S. government to the American Indians in return for their land?
What was the relationship issue between the Traditional Dakota and the Farm Dakota?
What is Traditional Dakota were angry because the Farm Dakota got extra annuities and they felt they were betraying their traditional ways?
What was the role of traders on/near the reservation?
What is to run stores?
What does it mean to be forced to leave one's country or homeland?
What is exiled?
The war lasted 9 days.
What is false? (it actually lasted 6 weeks or 40 days)
What did the trader Andrew Myrick say to the Dakota about their hunger problem; causing even more tension?
What is "if they are hungry, let them eat grass?
What were the goals of missionaries that were sent to the reservations?
What is convince Dakota to convert to Christianity?
How did settlers react to the war?
What is they were scared and tried to flee?
What is an agency?
What is a U.S. government field office?
Settlers returned to their homes after the war.
What is false?
How did the behavior of traders increase tensions?
What is the cutoff the credit system?
What was the role of the Indian Agents near the reservations?
What is to distribute annuities?
What was Southwestern MN like following the war?
What is most settlers left and Dakota were exiled? Thousands of settlers came in the 1880s.
What is a place where civilians, prisoners of war, and/or political prisoners are held?
What is an internment camp?
The Lower Sioux Agency was a battle site in the U.S. Dakota War of 1862.
What is true?