Spirit Lake Massacre

Cuándo

1857

Tipo

Masacre

Coordenadas

43.42° N, 95.10° W

Description

1857 attack by Sioux on settlers in Spirit Lake, Iowa

Date from

year in its Wikidata description

1857 attack by Sioux on settlers in Spirit Lake, Iowa

The Spirit Lake Massacre was an attack by a Wahpekute band of Santee Sioux on scattered Iowa frontier settlements during a severe winter. Suffering a shortage of food, the renegade chief Inkpaduta led 14 Sioux against the settlements near Okoboji and Spirit lakes in Northwestern Iowa near the Minnesota border, in revenge of the murder of Inkpaduta's brother, Sidominadotah, and Sidominadotah's family by Henry Lott, a…

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