GC3T16E Mondo's NAT #176 - Dakota
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: mondou2 @ | Hide Date: 08/05/2012 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 55.636 W104° 35.010 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
         

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Native American Tribes series.

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The Dakota

The Dakota Sioux, also called the Santee Sioux, originally migrated northeast into Ohio and Minnesota. The name "Santee" comes from camping for long periods in a place where they collected stone for making knives  Woodland people, they thrived on hunting, fishing and some farming. It was from the Dakota, that the Lakota stemmed, moving further west into the great plains.

There are four bands in the Dakota tribe, who primarily live in South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and North Dakota, including:

• Mdewakantonwon
• Wahpeton
• Wahpekute
• Sisseton

In the 19th century, the railroads hired hunters to exterminate the buffalo herds, in order to force the tribes onto reservations. As the buffalo quickly came almost extinct, both the Dakota and Lakota were forced to accept white-defined reservations in exchange for the rest of their lands. Domestic cattle and corn were given to the Sioux in exchange for buffalo, making the Sioux dependent upon the government for food and payments  guaranteed by treaty.

In 1862, after a failed crop the year before and a winter starvation, the federal payment was late to arrive. The local traders would not issue any more credit to the Dakota and the local federal agent told the Dakota that they were free to eat grass. As a result on August 17, 1862, the Sioux Uprising began when a few Dakota men attacked a white farmer, igniting further attacks on white settlements along the Minnesota River. The US Army put the revolt down, then later tried and condemned 303 Dakota for war crimes. President Abraham Lincoln remanded the death sentence of 285 of the warriors, signing off on the execution of 38 Dakota men by hanging on December 29, 1862 in Mankato, Minnesota, the largest mass execution in US history.

05/10/2019 By #1 Beefers
Out on my own today, grabbing a few caches along the nice power trail. Nice day for caching too! Thank you for this placement mondou2.

03/23/2019 By EJBHGV
A little chilly and some rain.
But all in all a great day geocaching on the eastern plains of Colorado.
This was one of my finds.
All CO's thanks for making this day possible.

10/18/2018 By team tiger pride
Still heading north towards home. Thanks for the cache

09/04/2018 By Mean Kitty
Find #49072

Its been a long hot summer in Texas, I've been trying to get out and do a caching trip a couple of times this summer, but it never worked out. Finally managed to get a week off, and am so happy to be out here in Colorado. The weather if perfect, and there is a load of caches that need my name on Thanks so much for the hide mondou2, I really enjoyed finiding this cache!

08/16/2018 By FeatheredFriends
Still working on a county run. Today I had a few counties in south east Wyoming and across the border into Nebraska to pick up. Then I headed back to Denver for my flight back. I had extra time so I cached around the airport some more picking up a lot of Mondo caches. I signed the logs as FeatheredFriends or as "FF" on the smaller logs to save space. This was my '43rd' find for today. Thanks 'mondou2' for a fun time in the area.
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08/09/2018 By Izzifix
Before I have to go back to Switzerland, FWIA and Harvestmoon2 decided to get some caches around the Denver Airport area. Always a lot of fun on our trips!

Thanks to all the CO’s for placing the caches. Best regards, Izzifix

08/09/2018 By HarvestMoon2
TFTC! Had to bring my cousins, FWIA and Izzifix up to Denver as they leave for home soon. What does one do on an overnight trip? Need I say more? SL HM2

08/09/2018 By FWIA
Ah yes, back in beautiful Colorado with Izzifix & Harvestmoon2 for family time and caching. A couple days left until I head back to Iowa and Izzifix goes back to Switzerland.

Thanks to all the CO’s for placing the caches we enjoyed hunting.

07/15/2018 By Barasaur
Memfis Mafia and I had plans to get near 1000 caches this weekend in South Dakota. Come Thursday when we were to pick up our rental car from Enterprise they said sorry we do not have a car for you. Even though we reserved one a month in advance. There was not another car in town to rent so we called off our trip.

Today we ran out to get enough caches to finish our Hidden Creatures. We ended up over 100 on the day and about 10% of out plan. In any case this was a cache we got today. Thanks for the hide.

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