Thursday,
May 10, 2012
7pm
"Lands of the
Dakota War, 1862"
Free!
Free will offerings gratefully accepted
" Escapees camping on prairie, Sioux Massacre."
This is a colored postcard created from an 1862 photo by Adrian J.
Ebell.
Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society.
John Grabko returns to present Part II of his talk about the U.S. Dakota Land War of 1862. A September 2011 talk introduced the topic, with mention of participation by Gen. Henry Sibley and William Worrell Mayo, to a spellbound audience. This program will touch on the main points of that presentation, then move on to the conflict related to the Upper Agency, the events of Lake Shetak and Slaughter Slough, the Dakota banishment, and Sibley’s 1863 and other expeditions.
“It becomes clear that a battle of cultures to last 30 years has begun at a little place known as Acton, Minn. This would go on to involve great leaders of the Dakota/Lakota people such as Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, and was not to end until the events of the Little Big Horn & Wounded Knee,” Grabko said.
From The Dakota War of 1862
by Kenneth Carley:
“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. Restricted to a narrow reservation along
the upper Minnesota River, the Dakota (Sioux) were frustrated by broken
treaties, angered by dishonest agents and traders, and facing starvation
due to crop failures and late annuity payments. Led by Little Crow, Dakota
warriors attacked the Redwood and Yellow Medicine Indian agencies and all
whites living on their former lands in south-western Minnesota. They killed
more than 450 settlers and took some 250 white and mixed-blood prisoners
during the 38-day conflict. White civilians and military units commanded
by Henry H. Sibley defended towns and forts, pursued warriors, and eventually
forced the Indians to surrender or flee westward.
The war ended with a mass execution of 38 Dakota men on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota. 300 others were imprisoned, and the Dakota people were banished from the state.”
Presented by John Grabko, President and founder of Historic Adventure & Travel Tours. Grabko works within the Historic Sites Division of the Minnesota Historical Society and is fulfilling a life-long dream and passion of sharing America's story and past with adventure travelers of all ages.
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