Sibley, Henry Hastings: birth and education, 59; arrives at Mendota (1834), 59; Dakota name, 60; chosen delegate by the Stillwater convention, 86; delegate from Wisconsin Territory, 87; secures passage of act creating Minnesota Territory, 88; protests against Rice’s Winnebago Contract, 105; elected delegate to Congress from Minnesota Territory, 105; his notable Indian speech, August 2, 1850, 107; secures double land grants for common schools and for a university, 107; speech for reform of Indian policy, 107; retires from American Fur Company, 197; drafts new bill for land grants to Minnesota railroads, 124; in legislature of 1855, 126; frames report on Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad, 126; draws memorial to Congress praying for disapproval of Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad bill, 127; chairman and president of Democratic end of constitutional convention, 138; elected first state governor, 149; sworn in as governor, 157; inaugural address, 159; notifies the four companies as to prior lien, 163; appointed to Command Indian expedition, 211; corresponds with Little Crow, 216; moves against the Sioux, 218; commands in battle of Wood Lake, 218; releases captives, 220; promoted brigadier-general, 222; appoints military commission, 227; commands Sioux expedition of 1863, 234; in legislature of 1871, favors payment of bonds of 1858 in full, 328; honorary banquet to, 339; receives degree of LL. D., 339; death, 339. Sioux and Chippeways exchange murders, 62. Sioux campaign of 1864, 236; expedition of 1863, 234. Sioux half-breed scrip, story of, 117; placed on iron ore properties, 119. Sioux Indians: first heard of, 7; seen by Allouez, 14; early habitat, 44; immigration of, 44; characteristics, 45; tribes and numbers of, 94; move to reserves (1853), 120, 167; uneasy on reserves, 167; become farmers, 168; effect of concentration, 191; character of reservations, 192; prey of whiskey-sellers, 192; disturbances at upper agency, 194; delay of payments, 195; soldiers’ lodge, 196; late arrival of gold, 196; murders at Acton, 197; council at upper agency, 201; depopulation, 203; losses in outbreak, 211; removal from Minnesota, 232. Sioux outbreak, 190. Sioux prisoners, trial of, by military commission, 227; disposition of principal body of, 228, 232; maltreated by whites, 228; protests against leniency, 229; Bishop Whipple’s letter to President, 230; President Lincoln’s scrutiny, 230; executions, 231; mistakes in identification, 231; become Christians, 231, 232; disposition of convicts not executed, 232.