When the government fell behind on providing food and supplies, some Dakotas began to raid ____ ____in southern Minnesota and Iowa. This set off a panic in Dakota Territory.
White Settlements
Then the United States fell behind in its payments to the Daktoas because of the ____ ____. The Dakotas grew hungry and desperate.
Civil War
In 1861, the first legislature of Dakota Territory met. It was known as the ____ ____.
Pony Congress
President Buchanan made The president made William Jayne of Illinois the first governor of Dakota Territory. He came to Yankton on a __________.
Steamboat
The government agreed to pay the Dakota tribe for the land. It would pay over one and a half million dollars in _____ and _____ over fifty years.
Food - Supplies
The Yanktons would live on just a portion of their lands. Only they could settle that portion. It was to be reserved just for them. Such land is called a _________.
Reservation
Struck-by-the-Ree, Todd, and fourteen Yankton leaders went to Washington, D. C. There they negotiated a ____ ____..
Land Treaty
Todd quickly learned that he could make more money that trading at his post by _____ _____.
Selling Land
John B. S. Todd quit the army to start a ____ ____ near Fort Randall.
Trading Post
The year 1854 brought new trouble. Settlers said that a Minniconjou Lakota man had stolen a ___.
Cow
What agreement did the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty include?
The Indians said they would stop fighting with white settlers and each other. They would let the United States build roads across.
In 1851 eight Indian nations met with the United States to talk about the problem of settlers. They met at ___ ____ in what is now Wyoming.
Fort Laramie
