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Zebulon Pike signed a treaty. He paid $2,000,000 for 2 spots of land: by te Mississippi River and the St. Croix River
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Agreement for land east of the Mississippi River and lumbermen came in early. They cut down trees, the Dakotans were shocked.
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Dakota had to give up 35,000,000 acres of land. Minnesota promised $3,000,000 and a reservation on the Minnesota River.
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4 young Dakotans killed 5 white settlers over eggs. The Dakota War starts.
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The Dakota attacked the Lower Sioux Agency and killed Andrew Myrick.
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Colonel Henry Sibley led 1600 well armed troops into the Dakota War.
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The war is over!
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Colonel Henry Sibley sets up a court in a kitchen to judge Dakota.
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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.
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The prisoners were then banished to a South Dakota reservation.Hundreds of them died from disease and hunger.
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The government moved the prisoners to a Nebraska reservation.
