Drifting Goose and his peaceful perseverance against white settlement
Drifting Goose and his band of Hunkpati Sioux, successfully delayed white settlement in the James River Valley for nearly a half century.
Q&A: Who was Henry Benjamin Whipple?
“It may be beyond my province to offer these suggestions; I have made them because my heart aches for this poor wronged people.” -Henry B. Whipple to Abraham Lincoln, March 6, 1862 In 1859, Henry Benjamin Whipple was voted the first Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota. In his role as Bishop, Whipple traveled throughout…
Q&A: What was the Indian or Reservation System?
By 1862, the United States had developed a specific method of management over the American Indians. It was a bureaucracy often called the Indian or Reservation System. By this system, the Indian tribes were separated by region into a Superintendency. Within each Superintendency, were any number of Agencies. In 1862, the Dakota were a…