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Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
v, 102 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
While the Civil War raged in the East and South, Dakota Indians in Minnesota erupted violently into action against white settlers, igniting the tragic Dakota War of 1862. Hemmed in on a narrow reservation along the upper Minnesota River, the Dakota (Sioux) were frustrated by broken treaties, angered by dishonest agents and traders, and near starvation because of crop failures and late annuity payments. Led by Little Crow, Dakota warriors attacked...
Author
Language
English
Description
A classic chapter of American history#x14;the 1862 Sioux uprising in Minnesota known as the Dakota Conflict#x14;is retold in this new presentation of the first-hand accounts woven together at the time by a local parish leader. The uprising and its aftermath are detailed with the skill of a historian and the moral insight of a theologian, positioning the Dakota Conflict squarely in the context of early German-American settlement and distilling the...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 363 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"38 Nooses" details the events surrounding the 1862 uprising of the Dakota Indians led by Little Crow within the larger context of the Civil War, the history of the Dakota people, and the subsequent United States-Indian wars.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Plains Indian Wars of the nineteenth century garnered enduring fame for certain Indian leaders, their names echoing powerfully even today: Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Red Cloud. Just as significant but less often mentioned is Taoyateduta, known to whites as Little Crow, the reluctant leader of Dakota warriors during the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862, the opening salvo of the U.S.–Indian Wars.
In this carefully researched biography of...
In this carefully researched biography of...
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
From the mid-1830s to the 1860s, the missionaries sent to Minnesota by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) wrote thousands of letters to their supervisors and supporters claiming success in converting the Dakota people. But author Linda M. Clemmons reveals that the reality of the situation was far more conflicted than what those written records would suggest. In fact, in the rough Minnesota territory, missionaries often...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
vi, 71 pages : maps, illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"A tragic Dakota War account of how a rescue party risked their lives by leaving the safety of New Ulm hoping to rescue families and neighbors along the Big Cottonwood River, only to return empty-handed and placing themselves in peril."--cover
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