Reservations In the 1860s Indians confined to even smaller reservations in exchange for promises to be left alone, food and other supplies.
{"Image DocumentName": "ReservationsIn the 1860s Indians confined to even smaller reservations in exchange for promises to be left alone, food and other supplies.", "Image ImageDescription": "Northern plains Indians --the large Dakota territory ( Great Sioux Reservation ) South, Indian territory in present-day Ok. Promises were broken. Sioux uprising in Minnesota. during the civil war is bloodily crushed. Image. Execution of 38 Sioux, Mankato, Minnesota, The execution of 38 Sioux Indians at Mankato, Minnesota, on December 25, Late in the summer of that year, the easternmost Sioux, the Santee, rose in rebellion after several frustrating months of waiting for payment of their annuities. In 1851 these Minnesota bands had agreed to a treaty giving away 30 million acres of land for  1.6 million dollars to be paid in annual deliveries of food and cash. The government enforced payment of much of the cash to traders for debts incurred by Indians even when the traders had not delivered food and supplies. In 1858 the government cut in half the size of their reservation along the Minnesota River; in August 1862 bands of Sioux, led by Chief Little Crow, made open warfare on settlers in an attempt to drive whites off of land that had been theirs until Some 500 to 700 settlers were killed, but frontier army units diverted from Civil War service eventually put down the Minnesota Uprising. Most of the warriors escaped farther west, but some 400 were captured. Of these, 38 were executed.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}