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LITTLE FOKKS- — LITTLE RAVEN 



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father Little Thunder, had its headquar- 

 ters at Kaposia (Kapozha), a village on 

 the V,'. bank of the Mississippi, 10 or 12 m. 

 below the mouth of Minnesota r. In 

 1846, while intoxicated, he was shot and 

 wounded by his brother; this caused him 

 to try to discourage drinking among his 

 followers, and probably induced him the 

 same year to ask of the Indian agent at 

 Ft Snelling a missionary to reside at his 

 village, as a result of which Rev. Thomas 

 S. Williamson was sent. Although Little 

 Crow was a signer (under the name of 

 Ta-oya-te-duta, 'His people are red') of 

 the treaty of Mendota, Minn., Aug. 5, 

 1851, by which the Dakota ceded most of 

 their Minnesota lands to the United 

 States, he used the treaty as a means of 

 creating dissatisfaction and ultimately in 

 bringing on the disastrous outbreak of 

 1862. In this outbreak, during which 

 more than a thousand settlers were killed. 

 Little Crow was the recognized leader. 

 Subsequent to the cession of 1851 several 

 bands, ini-luding the Kaposia, were re- 

 moved to a large reservation on the upper 

 Minnesota, where they dwelt peacefully, 

 professing genuine friendship for the 

 white settlers, until they rose suddenly 

 on Aug. 18, 1862, and spreading them- 

 selves along the frontier for more than 

 200 m., killed white men, women, and 

 children without mercy. Little Crow led 

 the tierce though unsuccessful attack on 

 Ft Ridgely, INIinn., Aug. 20-22, 1862, in 



ther w. He was killed by a settler named 

 Lampson, July 3, 1863, at a place n. of 

 Hutchinson, McLeod co., ]\Iinn. He was 

 probably nearly 60 years of age at the 

 time of "his death. Little Crow had had 



LITTLE CROW THE 



which he was slightly wounded. After 

 the defeat of the hostiles at Wood lake, 

 Sept. 23, 1862, bv Gen. Sibley, Little Crow 

 with 200 or 300" followers fled to the pro- 

 tection of his kindred ou the plains far- 



LITTLE CROW THE YOUNGER 



6 wives and 22 children. Consult Minn. 

 Ilist.Soc. Coll., 111,1880; iv, 1876; Bryant 

 and Murch, History of the Great Massacre 

 ))y the Sioux Indians in 1862; Indian Af- 

 fairs Report for 1863; Neill, Hist. Minn., 

 1858. (c-T. ) 



Little Forks. A Chippewa res. formerly 

 on Tittibawassee r., in lower Michigan, 

 sold in 1837. 



Little Munsee Town. A former Munsee 

 village a few miles e. of Anderson, Madi- 

 son CO., Ind., on land sold in 1818 (Royce 

 in 1st Rep. B. A. E., map, 1881). It may 

 be identical with Kiktheswemud. 



Little Osage Village. A former Osage 

 village on Osage res., Okla., on the w. 

 bank of Neosho'r.— McCoy (1837) in Sen. 

 Doc. 120, 25th Cong., 2d sess., map, 952, 

 1838. 



Little Raven [Huku, 'Young Crow'). 

 An Arapaho chief. He was first signer, 

 for the Southern Arapaho, of the treaty 

 of Fort Wise, Colo., Feb. 18, 1861. At a 

 later period he took part with the allied 

 Arapaho and Cheyenne in the war along 

 the Kansas border, but joined in the 

 treaty of Medicine Lodge, Kans., in 1867, 

 l)y which these tribes agreed to go on a 

 reservation, after which treaty all his 

 effort was consistently directed toward 

 keeping his people at peace with_ the 

 Government and leading them to civili- 



