BATTLE SITES & LOCATIONS
This agency was where the Dakota lived.
What is the Lower Sioux Agency?
This group operated stores on the reservation.
Who are the traders?
This major American conflict was occupying U.S. military attention in 1862.
What is the Civil War?
These yearly payments were late in the summer of 1862.
What are annuity payments?
This many men were actually executed after the war.
What is 38?
This Minnesota town was the site where four young Dakota men killed five European American settlers.
What is Acton?
This group was arriving by the thousands, eager to start farms.
Who are the settlers?
This group had adopted European American customs like attending church.
Who are the Farm Dakota?
Traders refused to give Dakota food unless they received these first.
What are annuity payments/money?
This many Dakota men were originally convicted to death.
What is 303?
This famous fort became an internment camp where Dakota spent the winter after the war.
What is Fort Snelling?
This group was working to convert the Dakota to Christianity.
Who are the missionaries?
This group wanted to keep their sacred beliefs and hunt off the reservation.
Who are the Traditional Dakota?
This was the reason some of the Dakota thought it was the right time to strike.
What is the U.S. was focused on the Civil War?
After learning about the living conditions of the Dakota before the war, this person decided to pardon many of them.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This region of Minnesota saw thousands of settlers arriving to start farms on treaty land.
What is southern Minnesota?
This group was responsible for distributing treaty annuities on the reservation and dealing with Dakota for the U.S. government.
Who are the Indian Agents?
The government gave extra food and help to these people.
Who are the Farm Dakota?
This man lead U.S. soldiers against the Dakota, and later oversaw Dakota trials.
Who is Henry Sibley?
Over this number of settlers were killed during the war.
What is 500?
Dakota were exiled to this type of location where food was scarce after the war.
What is a desolate reservation?
Government officials believed Dakota needed to do this in order to survive.
What is assimilate?
The loss of this through treaties limited Dakota ability to hunt and gather food.
What is traditional Dakota homeland?
This trader may have insulted the Dakota and refused to give them food without payments.
Who is Andrew Myrick?
This many Dakota were exiled to a desolate reservation.
What is 1,500?