Sketches, Historical and Descriptive, of the Monuments and Tablets Erected by the Minnesota Valley Historical Society in Renville and Redwood ... Incidents and in Honor of the Devotion and - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...to turn aside and was struck in the side and back, dying in a few minutes. His men buried his body in the east bank of the Yellow Medicine, a mile or more from the battlefield. With Mankato in the coulie was a portion of Hu-sha-sha's (Red Legs') band of Wapekootas. Hushasha died, old and blind, at Santee Agency, Neb., a few years ago. GRAY BIRD'S POSITION. Another marker indicates the position during the battle of the Indians under Gray Bird in the swale, and also the point where they made their last stand before retreating. Gray Bird was not a chief, but at the time of the battle was "head soldier," or commander, of the portion of the band of Little Crow which that chieftain had not taken with him on his expedition to the Big Woods.f Up to the day of the outbreak Gray Bird had been a "farmer Indian" at the Lower Agency. He wore white men's clothes, had adopted many of the white men's habits, and was considered a Christian. But blood, and especially Indian blood, is thicker than water, and when his people went on the war path Gray Bird went with them. He was not at all prominent among the.Sioux, was a man of moderate abilities, and never rose to any distinction. Heard says that he was in general command of the Indians at Birch Coulie, but Big Eagle and others deny this. Big Eagle says that the four bands present acted in concert without a general commander. WHERE MANKATO FOUGHT. Mankato was a chief by hereditary right. He was born in the vicinity of Fort Snelling and was the son of the Chief G-ood Road, whose village was for many years in the vicinity of the fort. Old Good Road was a reputable character and always firm in his friendship for the whites. The old time Chief Mankato (or Blue Earth), whose village was at the mouth...

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