American Historical Ephemera & Photography

Approx. 2 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. CDVs on cardstock mounts (toning to some; light to moderate soiling and wear to mount edges and corners). Each credited to Whitney's Gallery, St. Paul, MN. 

Captions printed on mount rectos. Anpetu-Tokeca, (Other day.) Who rescued Sixty-two persons from the Indian Massacre of 1862, in Minnesota. -- Mis-Ko-Pe-Nen-She. (Red Bird.) Chief of the Lake Winnipeg Band of Chippewas. -- Cut Nose, Who in the Massacre of 1862, in Minnesota, murdered 15 Women and Children and 5 Men. -- Little Crow, A Sioux Chief and Leader of the Indian Massacre of 1862, in Minnesota (print and mount trimmed along top edge). -- Ta-Tanka-Nazin, (Standing Buffalo.) A hereditary Chief of the Sioux, and a Participator in the Massacre of 1862, in Minnesota (print and mount trimmed along top edge). -- Old Bets. A Sioux Squaw who will long be remembered with gratitude by many of the Minnesota Captives, for her kindness to them while among the Sioux in 1862.

[With:] Old Betz. St. Paul, MN: W.H. Illingworth. 6 x 3 1/8 in. stereoview on cardstock mount (toning; light wear to mount edges and corners). 

Together, 6 photographs of Sioux Indians involved in the 1862 Dakota Uprising. 

The new state of Minnesota was home to thousands of American Indians in 1862, many of whom were disenchanted with the government's promise for annuities. In August of that year, a number of the Dakota were starving; on the 18th, Indians at the Lower Agency, under the leadership of Little Crow, attacked the white settlers there. Over the next few weeks hundreds of whites were killed, until the uprising was finally put down by Federal troops under the command of Henry Sibley.