Taoyateduta "Little Crow"

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Chief Taoyateduta Little Crow Little Crow

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Minnesota City, Winona, Minnesota, United States
Death: July 03, 1863 (52-53)
Hutchinson, McLeod, Minnesota, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Little Shell I Wakiŋyaŋtaŋka “Big Thunder” Chetañ aken mañi "Petit Corbeau"; Meene-Oke-Dawin Meene-oke-dawin Minnetonka Wife of Petitie Carboneau and Woman who gets water Gourneau
Husband of Eva Makatowin "Blue Earth" Rice; Wife Manihiyahewin Wakeman and Mazaiyagewin "Iron Cluster Woman"
Father of Emma Wakeman; Thomas "Wowinape", son of TaOyateDuta (Chief Little Crow) Wakeman; Jane Wakeman; Ellen Wells; George Wells and 8 others
Brother of Mary Tokanne Tokanne Renville; Left Hand; Tabasnawa (Wakinyantanka) Big Thunder, Asaiance II; Elizabeth Silk Feathers, Full Blood Cherokee; Sarah Yellow Bird Nancy and 17 others
Half brother of Aisaince III Weesh-e-damo "Tacgitcit Split Rump" Little Shell II; Chief Joseph Kaishpa "The Elevated One" Gourneau; Angelique Jourdain; Aisaince III Weesh-e-damo "Tacgitcit Split Rump" Little Shell II; Chief Broken Arm and 3 others

Occupation: Mdewakanton Chief
Managed by: Chetañ aken mañi
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About Taoyateduta "Little Crow"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Crow


Little Crow (Dakota: Thaóyate Dúta; ca. 1810 – July 3, 1863) was a chief of a band of the Mdewakanton Dakota people, who were based along the Minnesota River. His given name translates as "His Red Nation," (Thaóyate Dúta). He was known as Little Crow because of a mistranslation by Europeans of his grandfather's name, Čhetáŋ Wakhúwa Máni (literally, "Hawk that chases/hunts walking").

Little Crow is notable for his role in negotiating the treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota of 1851, in which he agreed to remove his band of Dakota to a reservation near the Minnesota River in exchange for annuity goods and payments. In the summer of 1862, the federal government failed to deliver annuities in a timely way, and the Dakota were starving. Little Crow supported the decision of a Dakota war council in August 1862 to try to drive the whites out of the region. Little Crow led warriors in the Dakota War of 1862, but retreated in September 1862 before the war's conclusion in December of that year.

Little Crow was shot and killed on July 3, 1863 by two white settlers, a man and his son. He was scalped and his body was taken to Hutchinson, Minnesota, where it was ritually humiliated and mutilated by white settlers. Some time later his remains were exhumed by Army troops, and eventually the Minnesota Historical Society held them. In 1971 the Society repatriated his remains, giving them to his grandson. He had Little Crow reinterred at the First Presbyterian Church and Cemetery in Flandreau, South Dakota. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

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Taoyateduta "Little Crow"'s Timeline

1763
1763
1810
1810
Minnesota City, Winona, Minnesota, United States
1844
1844
Mendota, Dakota, Minnesota, United States
1846
August 1846
Minnesota
1849
1849
Minnesota, United States
1862
1862
1863
July 3, 1863
Age 53
Hutchinson, McLeod, Minnesota, United States
1872
1872
South Dakota
1873
October 4, 1873
Flandreau, Moody, South Dakota, USA