DAKOTA WAR Ep. 6 | “Killdeer Mountain”

Legends of the Old West

Black Barrel Media

Arts, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In the wake of the executions of 38 Dakota warriors, the Dakota are forced to leave Minnesota. As they try to build new lives on a barren reservation in present-day South Dakota, U.S. army columns march west on punitive expeditions against the wider Sioux Nation. General Henry Sibley’s column fights three battles near Bismarck, North Dakota, and then General Alfred Sully’s column attacks a Lakota camp that is home to a rising star in the Lakota community, Sitting Bull. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.6	Visit ServiceNow.com slash UK slash AI for people. Six months after 38 Dakota men were hanged in Mancato, Minnesota, Dakota leader Little Crow returned to his homeland.
0:53.4	He was one of the principal leaders of the Dakota War from August 18th to September 23,
0:59.0	1862.
1:01.1	He had been reluctant to go to war against the United States because he believed that Dakota
1:05.2	had no chance to win, and he was right.
1:09.0	After Colonel Henry Sibley's force of about 1,600 soldiers survived in ambush
1:14.0	and then defeated Little Crow's army, more than 2,000 Dakota men, women, and children surrendered
1:20.4	or were captured. But Little Crow and some of his followers fled. They moved west in search of sanctuary with other tribal groups of the Sioux Nation, but
1:31.3	they found no help.
1:33.1	No one was willing to risk the wrath of the U.S. by sheltering the refugees.
1:38.0	So Little Crow and his people fled north, hoping to find sanctuary in Canada, but they
1:43.2	were rebuffed again.
1:45.1	Even as they were forced to keep moving, Little Crow vowed he would never return to southern Minnesota,
1:51.0	the land that had once belonged to his people, but had been given to the U.S. in a series of complicated treaties.
1:57.5	He had led an uprising to reclaim his land and to find a way to keep his people from starving
2:03.6	after a litany of broken promises and corrupt practices by American officials.
2:08.6	After the uprising failed, and after more than nine months on the run, Little Crow returned to Minnesota in the summer of 1863.
2:23.6	38 of his former comrades in arms had been hanged in the town of Mancato six months earlier,
2:26.3	one day after Christmas, 1862.
2:32.5	Initially, 303 Dakota men had been sentenced to death by a military commission, but President Abraham Lincoln had commuted
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