Post by ladonna on Dec 10, 2012 9:38:28 GMT -5
The Crow Creek Indian Reservation was established by executive order following what was known as the Minnesota Uprising, as a prison camp for the exiled Isanti Dakota and Winnebago people. These were the survivors, mostly women and children, of the largest known public execution in American History, “The Hanging of 38 Dakota Men at Mankato Minnesota.” From 1863 to 1866 approximately 300 died at Fort Thompson suffering from starvation, sickness, disease, exposure, hardship, and heartache.
The Reservation is also the homelands to the Ihanktowan Dakota of the Oceti Sakowi (Seven Council Fires) commonly known as the Great Sioux Nation. In the years following 1863 bands of Dakota Chiefs including Sisseton and Wahpeton were forced and ordered to settle on Crow Creek by the US Government. Dakotas from other bands including the Mdewakan, Hunkpapa, Yanktanai and Tetons also settled on Crow Creek when they were not allowed annuities at other reservation agencies.
May 1863 Dakota Whitestone survivors were forced aboard steamboats and relocated to the Crow Creek Reservation, in the southeastern Dakota Territory, a place stricken by drought at the time. The land would later be flooded
The Crow Creek Reservation, established in 1862, has always been separate from the other reservation. The people of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe are a mixture of Dakota and Lakota who were brought as prisoner of war to the camp at Crow Creek.
Some escape from Minnesota following the Dakota War of 1862 in Minnesota, The reservation originally included bottom lands along the Missouri, which had been farmed by Arikara and other tribes prior to these tribes being wiped out in smallpox and other epidemics in the 18th century; today, several Arikara or Mandan villages are archeological sites on the Crow Creek Reservation. Lake Sharpe flooded much of this land, forcing relocation of Fort Thompson and other settlements, and worsening the economic conditions in the area. Allotment and land sales reduced both the amount of land in tribal and Indian ownership, and even the boundaries of the Reservation shrank between its establishment in 1862 and modern times.
The Reservation is also the homelands to the Ihanktowan Dakota of the Oceti Sakowi (Seven Council Fires) commonly known as the Great Sioux Nation. In the years following 1863 bands of Dakota Chiefs including Sisseton and Wahpeton were forced and ordered to settle on Crow Creek by the US Government. Dakotas from other bands including the Mdewakan, Hunkpapa, Yanktanai and Tetons also settled on Crow Creek when they were not allowed annuities at other reservation agencies.
May 1863 Dakota Whitestone survivors were forced aboard steamboats and relocated to the Crow Creek Reservation, in the southeastern Dakota Territory, a place stricken by drought at the time. The land would later be flooded
The Crow Creek Reservation, established in 1862, has always been separate from the other reservation. The people of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe are a mixture of Dakota and Lakota who were brought as prisoner of war to the camp at Crow Creek.
Some escape from Minnesota following the Dakota War of 1862 in Minnesota, The reservation originally included bottom lands along the Missouri, which had been farmed by Arikara and other tribes prior to these tribes being wiped out in smallpox and other epidemics in the 18th century; today, several Arikara or Mandan villages are archeological sites on the Crow Creek Reservation. Lake Sharpe flooded much of this land, forcing relocation of Fort Thompson and other settlements, and worsening the economic conditions in the area. Allotment and land sales reduced both the amount of land in tribal and Indian ownership, and even the boundaries of the Reservation shrank between its establishment in 1862 and modern times.