Sioux War
At a glance:
- Series: Racial and Ethnic Relations in America
- Categories: Military History, Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution
- Subcategories: Wars, Battles, Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877)
- Geographical Location: Minnesota
- Date: Beginning August 17, 1862
Article abstract: Minnesota Sioux lose their tribal lands to encroaching white settlers in one of the largest mass slaughters in U.S. history.
On August 17, 1862, four Santee Sioux men, returning from a fruitless search for food beyond the boundaries of their southern Minnesota reservation, attacked and killed five white settlers near Acton, in Meeker County. Ordinarily, the culprits would have been surrendered to white authorities, but these were no ordinary times. The Sioux of Minnesota were starving. Long-promised annuities were slow in coming, as usual, and...
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