In the latter part of May, 1858, a battle was fought near Shakopee between the Sioux and the Chippewas.

THE GREAT SIOUX OUTBREAK IN 1862.

NARRATION OF SOME OF THE EXCITING EVENTS THAT OCCURRED DURING THE GREAT SIOUX OUTBREAK IN 1862FORT RIDGELY, NEW ULM AND BIRCH COULIEOTHER DAY AND WABASHAGREAT EXCITEMENT IN ST.

By the terms of the treaty of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota in 1851 the Sioux sold all their lands in Minnesota, except a strip ten miles wide on each side of the Minnesota river from near Fort Ridgely to Big Stone lake.

Maj. Galbraith, the agent of the Sioux, had organized a company to go South, composed mostly of half-breeds, and this led the Indians to believe that now would be the time to go to war with the whites and get their land back.

It is known that the Sioux had been in communication with Hole-in-the-Day, the Chippewa chief, but the outbreak was probably precipitated before they came to an understanding.

He was surrounded by 700 or 800 Sioux, fully armed and equipped.

Advertisements appeared in the St. Paul newspapers offering rewards of $25 a piece for Sioux scalps.

Rumors of this character were often circulated, and it was not until after the battle of Wood Lake that the people of St. Paul felt that they were perfectly safe from raids by the hostile Sioux.

After a spirited engagement Col. Marshall, with about 400 men, made a double-quick charge upon the Sioux and succeeded in utterly routing them.

" Wabasha was a Sioux chief, and although he was not found guilty of participating in any of the massacres of women and children, he was probably in all the most important battles.

This young man had been so very demonstrative of his ability to cope with the entire Sioux force that his companions resolved to test his bravery.

Chän seems to understand many words in Sioux, and will go to her mat even when I whisper the word, though generally I think she is guided by the tone of the voice.

THE SOFT-HEARTED SIOUX I. Beside the open fire I sat within our tepee.

But the unusual qualities of the slave had won the Sioux warrior's heart, and for the last three winters the man had had his freedom.

His was the first band of the Great Sioux Nation to make treaties with the government in the hope of bringing about an amicable arrangement between the red and white Americans.

The journey to the nation's capital was made almost entirely on pony-back, there being no railroads, and the Sioux delegation was beset with many hardships on the trail.

In the eyes of the white man's law, it was required of her to give proof of her membership in the Sioux tribe.

Under the brooding wilderness silence, on the Sioux Indian Reservation, the superintendent summoned together the leading Indian men of the tribe.

When the plains knew them no more, how would the Sioux and the Blackfeet and the Piegans live?

Out of 40,000 Sioux Indians

Black Elk speaks; being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux as told to John G. Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow)

R455689. DYKE, CHARLES L. The story of Sioux County.

SIOUX or DAKOTA INDIANS, a North American Indian tribe, once spread over the territory lying between Lake Winnipeg (N.) and the Arkansas River (S.), but now confined chiefly to South Dakota and Nebraska.

Failure on the part of the United States Government to observe certain treaty conditions led to a great uprising of the Sioux in 1862, which was only put down at a great cost of blood and treasure; conflicts also took place in 1876 and 1890, the Indians finding in their chief, Sitting Bull, a determined and skilful leader.