Dakota War

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
09/23/1805	Treaty #1	Zebulon Pike signed a treaty. He paid $2,000,000 for 2 spots of land: by te Mississippi River and the St. Croix River
07/29/1837	Treaty #2	Agreement for land east of the Mississippi River and lumbermen came in early. They cut down trees, the Dakotans were shocked.
09/17/1851	Treaty #3	Dakota had to give up 35,000,000 acres of land. Minnesota promised $3,000,000 and a reservation on the Minnesota River.
08/17/1862	Dakota War Starts	4 young Dakotans killed 5 white settlers over eggs. The Dakota War starts.
08/18/1862	Myrick Dies	The Dakota attacked the Lower Sioux Agency and killed Andrew Myrick.
08/27/1862	Col. Sibley Led 1600 Troops	Colonel Henry Sibley led 1600 well armed troops into the Dakota War.
09/30/1862	War is Over	The war is over!
10/01/1862	Sibley Sets Up a Court	Colonel Henry Sibley sets up a court in a kitchen to judge Dakota.
12/26/1862	38 Dakotans Hung	After Abraham Lincoln reviewed the cases at Bishop Henry Whipples request, he approved only 38 convictions, when there was supposed to be 303 Dakotans hung. Lincoln was also troubled by the reservation conditions.
12/31/1863	Prisoners Banished to S. Dakota	The prisoners were then banished to a South Dakota reservation.Hundreds of them died from disease and hunger.
12/31/1866	Prisoners moved to Nebraska	The government moved the prisoners to a Nebraska reservation.