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August 16, 1863
NEW YORK HERALD, August 16, 1863
* Chief Little Crow death
* Stonewall Jackson & Robert E. Lee ad on page 5
* Civil war original reading
On the front page under "The Indian War" is a report: "Defeat of the Sioux in Three Desperate Battles".
Includes a one paragraph dispatch with details about the "desperate engagements" with 2,200 Sioux warriors, signed in type: Henry Sibley, Brig. General, plus a second dispatch that says:
* ... Little Crow, the principal chief and instigator of the Indian Hostilities has been killed and his son captured...
signed in type: John Pope, Major General. Some lite foxing, some in this content. 8 pages, generally in nice condition.
wikipedia notes: Little Crow (Sioux: Ta-oya-te-duta; ca. 1810–July 3, 1863) was a chief of the Mdewakanton Dakota Sioux. His given name meant "His Red Nation," but he became known as Little Crow because of his father's name, Cetan Wakuwa Mani, (literally, "Hawk that chases/hunts walking") which was mistranslated.
Little Crow is notable in American history for his role in the negotiation of the Treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota of 1851, in which he agreed to the movement of his band of the Dakota to a reservation near the Minnesota River in exchange for goods and certain other rights. However, the government reneged on its promises to provide food and annuities to the tribe, and Little Crow was forced to support the decision of a Dakota war council in 1862 to pursue war to drive out the whites from Minnesota. Little Crow participated in the Dakota War of 1862, but retreated in September 1862 before the war's conclusion in December 1862. Little Crow was killed on July 3, 1863 by a settler who wished to collect the bounty given to any person who killed a Dakota in Minnesota.
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