![]() ![]() Fleeing to their village, they beg for protection. Timeline of War:Īugust 17: Four young Dakota men murder five white settlers near Acton Township, Meeker County. Increasingly, though, this lodge attracted young men who resisted U.S. Traditionally, the soldiers’ lodge regulated hunting efforts within a village. Of the estimated 6,500 Dakota people living on Minnesota reservation land in 1862, historians think no more than 1,000 actually fought, including some who were coerced into the battles.īefore the war broke out, a group of Mdewakantons had formed a soldiers’ lodge. The war was fought primarily by Mdewakanton and Wahpekute men. Mahipiyatowin, or Esther Wakeman, a Mdewakanton relative of Little Crow and witness to the war, as told to her daughter Elizabeth. It was difficult to know who was friend and who was foe." "Like a destructive storm, the war struck suddenly and spread rapidly. ![]()
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