In the late 1600s and early 1700s the headwaters of the Mississippi was a forested land of lakes and streams, teaming with game; the home of the powerful Dakota branch of the Western Sioux Nation. But it was not to last; another force, the Ojibwe, an Algonquin tribe from the east, were on the move westward along the shores of Lake Superior, and in the late 1600s these two powerful tribes met. At first, through the influence of the French, several decades of peace followed, but in the late 1730s an incident occurred that led a breakdown of that long truce. And so it began; a conflict that...
In the late 1600s and early 1700s the headwaters of the Mississippi was a forested land of lakes and streams, teaming with game; the home of the power...
It was August 1862, and the Civil War was raging, when the Dakota left their Minnesota reservation and rose in what was the largest Indian uprising in American history, and unique in that even sizable towns and army bases were attacked. In the uprising the small settlement at Lake Shetek in Southwestern Minnesota was attacked, and three white women and eight children taken captive. This story is of how a group of teen-aged youths of the Lakota, the western branch of the Sioux Nation, set out to free those captives at the risk of their own lives.
It was August 1862, and the Civil War was raging, when the Dakota left their Minnesota reservation and rose in what was the largest Indian uprising...
