Indians of North America -- Iowa; Spirit Lake Massacre, Iowa, 1857
[3] Flandrau’s _State-Building in the West_ in the _Collections of the
Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. VIII, pp. 483, 484.
[4] Judge Charles E. Flandrau’s _State-Building in the West_ in the
_Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. VIII, p. 483.
[5] Rev. Moses N. Adams’s _The Sioux Outbreak in the Year 1862_ in the
_Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. IX, p. 432.
[6] “The inferior power knows perfectly well that, if it does not
accept the terms, it will ultimately be forced out of its domains,
and it accepts. This comprises the elements of all Indian
treaties.”--Flandrau’s _State-Building in the West_ in the
_Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. VIII, p. 483.
[7] Flandrau’s _State-Building in the West_ in the _Collections of the
Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. VIII, pp. 483, 484.
[8] The massacre at Ash Hollow, often mentioned as a cause of the
massacre at Okoboji, was the culmination of a campaign of terror
planned by Gen. Harney against the Oglala and Brulé Sioux. The line of
march was Fort Leavenworth, Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, and Fort
Pierre. At Ash Hollow near the Blue River and about four miles from
the left bank of the North Platte he found Little Thunder’s band of
the Brulé Sioux. When his cavalry had surrounded the Indians, he
planned an advance with his infantry. Little Thunder desired a
council. Gen. Harney refused, saying that he had come to fight. As
Harney advanced, he motioned the Indians to run. They did so and ran
directly into Harney’s cavalry. Finding themselves trapped, they
fought savagely to the end. “The battle of Ash Hollow was little more
than a massacre of the Brulés.... Though hailed as a great victory ...
the battle of Ash Hollow was a ... disgrace to the officer who planned
and executed it. The Indians were trapped and knew it ... and the
massacre which ensued was as needless and as barbarous as any
which the Dakotas have at any time visited upon the white
people.”--Robinson’s _History of the Dakota or Sioux Indians_ in the
_South Dakota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, pp. 224, 225. See also
_General Harney_ in the _South Dakota Historical Collections_, Vol. I,
pp. 107, 108; Beam’s _Reminiscences of Early Days in Nebraska_ in the
_Transactions and Reports of the Nebraska State Historical Society_,
Vol. III, pp. 301, 302; _House Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 34th
Congress, Vol. I, Pt. II, Doc. No. 1, pp. 49-51.
[9] Royce’s _Indian Land Cessions in the United States_ in the
_Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology_, Part
II, pp. 710-712, 726; Kappler’s _Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties_,
Vol. II, pp. 250-255, 305-310.
[10] See references in note 9 above.
[11] Royce’s _Indian Land Cessions_, p. 736; Kappler’s _Indian
Affairs: Laws and Treaties_, Vol. II, p. 346.
[12] Royce’s _Indian Land Cessions_, p. 737.
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