Dakota Indians -- Wars, 1862-1865.
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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
38 nooses : Lincoln, Little Crow, and the beginning of the frontier's end
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Identifier: 6513-RefShelf-General
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"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.
Dates:
Copyright: 2012
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Birch Coulie : the epic battle of the Dakota War
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Identifier: 6500-RefShelf-General
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In the days following the Battle of Birch Coulie, the decisive battle in the deadly Dakota War of 1862, one of President Lincoln's private secretaries wrote: "There has hardly been an outbreak so treacherous, so sudden, so bitter, and so bloody, as that which filled the State of Minnesota with sorrow and lamentation." Even today, at the 150th anniversary of the Dakota War, the battle still raises questions and stirs controversy. In Birch Coulie John Christgau recounts the dramatic events...
Dates:
Copyright: 2012
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Camera and sketchbook : witnesses to the Sioux uprising of 1862
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Identifier: 6277-RefShelf-General
Table of Contents
Adrian J. Ebell: photographer, journalist, soldier, and historian of the Sioux uprising of 1862 -- Albert Colgrave: scenic artist, soldier and illustrator of the Sioux uprising of 1862 -- The Indian massacres and War of 1862 -- Sources used by Harper's Monthly for engravings -- Appendices: A. News from the Frontier -- A.J. Ebell, Journalist -- B. An Irate Critic! -- C. Casualties, Battle of Birch Coulee, September 2d and 3d, 1862 -- D. Names of captives held by the Dakota Indians as told by...
Dates:
Copyright: 2004
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Dakota dawn : the decisive first week of the Sioux uprising, August 17-24, 1862
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Identifier: 9993-RefShelf-General
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In August of 1862, hundreds of Dakota warriors opened without warning a murderous rampage against settlers and soldiers in southern Minnesota. The vortex of the Dakota Uprising along the Minnesota River encompassed thousands of people in what was perhaps the greatest massacre of whites by Indians in American history ... Dakota Dawn focuses in great detail on the first week of the killing spree, a great paroxysm of destruction when the Dakota succeeded, albeit fleetingly, in driving out the...
Dates:
Copyright: 2011
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Dakota uprising victims : gravestones & stories
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Identifier: 6434-RefShelf-General
Table of Contents
Listing of maps and illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Map of selected Dakota Uprising sites in Minnesota -- Map of locations and dates of killings and surnames of the victims -- Map of location of cemeteries and markers -- 1. Meeker County -- Acton -- Manannah -- Other victims -- 2. Lower Sioux Agency and vicinity -- Lower Sioux Agency -- Redwood Ferry -- Birch Coulee -- Renville County -- 3. New Ulm and Brown County -- Civil War Recruiting Party --...
Dates:
Copyright: 2007
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Minnesota in the Civil and Indian wars 1861-1865
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Identifier: 1608-RefShelf-Minnesota & Regional
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[I] Historical sketches and rosters of Minnesota organizations in the Civil and Indian Wars. List and short record of general officers appointed from Minnesota, and of other Minnesota officers who were brevetted as general officers. List and short record of officers appointed from Minnesota in the Volunteer Staff Corps. List of appointments in the United States army from Minnesota, 1861-1870. List of officers and enlisted men promoted from Minnesota Volunteers to be commissioned officers in...
Dates:
Publication: 1890-1893
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Narrative of my captivity among the Sioux Indians
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Identifier: 6468-RefShelf-General
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This book details the capture and ordeals of Fanny Kelly as she is captured by the Sioux Indians. It also gives us a vivid picture of a way of life that was soon to disappear.
Dates:
Copyright: 1990
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Over the earth I come : the great Sioux uprising of 1862
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Identifier: 6560-RefShelf-General
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December 26, 1862. On the day after Christmas, in Mankato, Minnesota, thirty-eight Sioux Indians were hanged on the order of President Lincoln. It stands today as the greatest mass execution in the history of the United States. In Over the Earth I Come, Duane Schultz brilliantly retells one of America's most violent and bloody events--the Great Sioux Uprisings of 1862. In less than one week in August, the Sioux went on a rampage throughout Minnesota that left hundreds of settlers dead. Whole...
Dates:
Copyright: 1992
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Red earth, white road
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Identifier: 6533-RefShelf-General
Dates:
Copyright: 2012
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Soldier, settler, and Sioux : Fort Ridgely and the Minnesota River Valley, 1853-1867
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Identifier: 6474-RefShelf-General
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments -- Foreword / by Alan R. Woolworth -- Illustration : scene of the 1862 Sioux Uprising -- Illustration : Fort Ridgely in 1862 -- Preface -- Introduction -- ch. 1. "This is a fine region of country" -- ch. 2. "They are a source of great and incessant annoyance to the settlers" -- ch. 3. "It seemed to me that white people took advantage of Indians" -- ch. 4 Life at Fort Ridgely, 1853-1867 -- ch. 5. "Pandemonium and hell now reigned" : the Dakota War of 1862 -- ch. 6. "The...
Dates:
Copyright: 2000
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center