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A Sioux Story of the War
"On 17th August, 1862, the Dakota Sioux rose up and decided to drive out white settlers from the area. Over the next two months they made extensive attacks on hundreds of settlers and immigrants, which in a large number of deaths, and caused many to flee the area. Much has been written of the Sioux uprising of 1862, particularly from the perspective of white settlers and soldiers who put down the Dakota outbreak, such as A. P. Connolly's A thrilling narrative of the Minnesota massacre and the Sioux war of 1862-63, Isaac V. D. Heard's History of the Sioux war and massacres of 1862 and 1863 and Harriet Bishop's Dakota war whoop: or, Indian massacres and war in Minnesota, of 1862-3. It is rare ...
Little Crow
Looks at the life of the Dakota Indian chief, describing his childhood, his travels from the Mdewakanton, and his role in the Dakota War of 1862.
The Dakota War
Although it is often overlooked, the Dakota campaign led by Commander Henry Hastings Sibley and Brigadier General Alfred Sully was greater in scope, intensity and bloodshed than almost any other Indian battle fought in the West. Military scholar Clodfelter examines both the Dakota War and another significant US victory, the Minnesota War of 1862. Rather than tempering the passions of the Sioux, these wars only incited the Teton Sioux to enter into a long-term resistance that would end only at Wounded Knee in 1890. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Infamous Dakota War Trials of 1862
The U.S.-Dakota War, the bloodiest Indian war of the 19th century, erupted in southwestern Minnesota during the summer of 1862. In the war's aftermath, a hastily convened commission of five army officers conducted trials of 391 Indians charged with murder and massacre. In 36 days, 303 Dakota men were sentenced to death. In the largest simultaneous execution in American history, 38 were hanged on a single gallows on December 26, 1862--an incident now widely considered an act of revenge rather than judicial punishment. Providing fresh insight into this controversial event, this book examines the Dakota War trials from the perspective of 19th century military law. The author discusses the causes and far-reaching consequences of the war, the claims of widespread atrocities, the modern debate over the role of culture in lawful warfare and how the war has been depicted by historians.
Dakota Life in the Upper Midwest
In 1834 Samuel W. Pond and his brother Gideon built a cabin near Cloud Man's village of the Dakota Indians on the shore of Like Calhoun--now present-day Minneapolis--intending to preach Christianity to the Indians. The brothers were to spend nearly twenty years learning the Dakota language and observing how the Indians live. In the 1860s and 1870s, after the Dakota had fought a disastrous war with the whites who had taken their land, Samuel Pond recorded his recollection of the indians "to show what manner of people the Dakotas were... while they still retained the customs of their ancestors." Pond's work, first published in 1908, is now considered classic. Gary Clayton Anderson's introduction discusses Pond's career and the effects of his background on this work, "unrivaled today for its discussion of Dakota material culture and social, political, religious, and economic institutions."
Expedition to the Southwest
Lt. Abert of the United States Army Topographical Engineers set out from Bent's Fort to conduct a detailed reconnaissance of the Canadian River region of the southern plains. Possessing a great eye for detail, Lt. Abert provided clear, graphic decriptions of birds, plants, animals, and the countryside, as well as details about the Comanches and the Kiowa. Lt. Abert's journal is one of the concluding records of the Anglo-American exploration of the American West begun in 1804 by Lewis and Clark.
