People & Perspectives
This group of Native Americans didn't want to change their beliefs and/or customs.
The Traditional Dakota
Annual payment of food and/or money
annuity
The government failed to do this which made the Dakota very angry and frustrated.
make their promised annuity payments
What many settlers did when the war started.
They left (fled) the area.
Name 2 ways the farm Dakota changed their lifestyle.
Cut their hair
Wore different clothes
Farmed for profit
Sent children to school
Lived in brick or wooden houses
Attended church
This group of people changed their ways to become more like the white man.
The Farm Dakota
Forced to leave your homeland
Exiled
The government did this for the Farm Dakota which made the Traditional Dakota very angry and frustrated.
give the Farm Dakota annuities and extra food, tools, and livestock.
What happened to all Dakota land after the war?
It was all taken away.
He said, "So far as I'm concerned, if they are hungry, let them eat grass"
Andrew Myrick (trader)
20,000 fled for safety then returned to rebuild.
The settlers
A place where civilians or Prisoners of War are held
Internment Camp
Name 2 things traders did that increased tension before the US-Dakota War of 1862.
Shut down the credit system, closed stores, stopped showing kinship.
The number of settlers killed in the first day of the war.
About 300
This group tried to persuade the Dakota to assimilate so they could survive.
The US Government.
the name for a government field office
agency
2 reasons why the Dakota were hungry.
Late payments-could not buy food.
Credit system was shut down.
Could not leave reservation to hunt.
Where were 1,700 Dakota forced to march and live during the winter of 1862/1863?
An internment camp near Fort Snelling.
This person approved the hanging of 39 Dakota men in Mankato, MN.
Abraham Lincoln
These people shut down the credit system so the Native Americans weren't able to get things they needed.
The traders
Persuaded or forced to give up lifestyle and adopt another culture's lifestyle.
assimilate
This is how the US Dakota War actually started.
An argument over eggs where 4 young Dakota men killed 5 settlers.
Where were the Dakota moved to after being exiled from Minnesota?
They were taken by steamboats & trains to Crow Creek reservation in South Dakota.
He led 1,400 US soldiers against the Dakota.
Henry Sibley