Northern Lights - Chapter 9

The Lower Sioux Agency was a battle site in the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862.

• true

• false

This group operated stores on the reservation.

• Indian agents

• traders

• missionaries

• settlers

Food and supplies were not withheld from the Dakota in the summer of 1862.

• true

• false

Settlers and Dakota never returned to their homes after war.

• true

• false

This group was working to convert the Dakota to Christianity.

• Farm Dakota

• Indian Agents

• Traders

• Missionaries

This group was arriving in southern Minnesota by the thousands, eager to start farms on land available as a result of treaties.

• Farm Dakota

• Traditional Dakota

• Settlers

• Petroglyphs

This group was responsible to carrying out U.S. government policies and giving out treaty annuities on the reservation.

• Traders

• Indian Agents

• Missionaries

• Indian Ages

All of the Dakota took part in the fighting.

• true

• false

This group had adopted many European American customs, including attending church and raising livestock.

• Indian Agents

• Farm Dakota

• Missionaries

• Traders

Check the items that support the following statement.

"The Dakota were pressured to give up their traditional way of life."

• Treaties reduced their land, making it harder to find food

• Some traders married in to the Dakota tribes.

• Dakota were pressured to assimilate

• Missionaries tried to convert the Dakota to Christianity

• all of the above