Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1863This collection of thirty-six narratives presents the Dakota Indians' experiences during a conflict previously known chiefly from the viewpoints of non-Indians. |
Contents
Causes of the Dakota War of 1862 | |
The War Begins | |
Attack on the Redwood Agency | |
The War Becomes General | |
Attack on the Yellow Medicine Agency | |
The Gathering at Little Crows Village | |
The Battles | |
The Flight North and the Emergence of the Peace Party | |
Common terms and phrases
accounts asked attack August August 18 battle of Wood Big Eagle Big Stone Lake Birch Coulee brother Brown Camp Release chief Claimants Continued from Chapter council Crawford Creek Dakota Indian Dakota Territory Faribault farmer father fight fire Fort Ridgely Fort Snelling Framboise Gabriel Renville girl guns half-breeds heard horses hostile Indians Joseph killed Little Crow lived lodge Lower Sioux Mankato massacre Mazakutemani Mdewakanton miles military commission Minnesota Collections Minnesota Historical Society Minnesota River mixed-bloods morning mother moved Narrative Source night outbreak prairie prisoners Redwood Agency Rice Creek Ridgely road Satterlee Senate Records 37A-F2 shoot shot Sibley’s side Sisseton and Wahpeton Sisseton Reservation Snelling soldiers Standing Buffalo Stars started told took traders Transcripts of Trials Treaties Trials of Sioux Wabasha wagon Wahpeton Bands wanted warriors wife woman women and children Wood Lake Yellow Medicine Agency Yellow Medicine River