little crows

• when did Dakota Sioux sign the fort Laramie treaty?

  1851
• what did the Dakota Sioux signing the fort Laramie treaty mean?

  they were moved onto reservations
• how much land did the Dakota Sioux give up?

  24 million acres for a return payment of $1.4 million with a yearly payment of $80,000 some in cash and some in provisions
• what was the problem with the treaty?

  treaty inclined a clause stating the Dakota Sioux had to pay $200,000 to traders before they could receive $1.4 million
• what did the clause mean for the US gov?

  hey refused to pay the $1.4 million and put off paying annuities for months
• what did the lack of money mean for the Dakota Sioux?

  they were starving on the reservations as land was infertile meaning they couldn't grow crops
• what was a cause of little crows war?

  increase in white settlers on the plains making the indigenous more inclined to move to reservations
• when was little crows war?

  1862
• when did the Dakotas Sioux get in a 'desperate situation'?

  august 1862
• how did the Dakotas Sioux get desperate?

  crops had failed and the government were not paying them. The reservation agent was not letting them buy food even though there was a warehouse full of it
• why did little crow think it was a good time to take back food?

  US army were fighting the confederates in the US civil war so they were preoccupied
• what did little crow and other chiefs do?

  • took food and provisions from warehouses
  • burned down buildings
  • attacked army forts and towns
• how many were killed during little crows war?

  600 settlers and 100 US soldiers
• how many Dakota Sioux warriors were put on trail?

  400
• what happened in the trail?

  most sentenced to death with no evidence of their guilt
• what did president Lincoln do to counteract the trail?

  insist those only proven guilty of murder or rape should be executed
• how many Dakota Sioux were executed?

  38
• what happened to remaining Dakota Sioux members?

  sent to crows creek reservation
• what were the conditions on crows creek reservation?

  isolated and dry lands in which many starved to death in the first winter there