The eastern council fires of the Sioux, at the wild-rice lakes of Minnesota.
Not an ending: after the 1862 Dakota War, Congress abolished the Minnesota reservations and, in May 1863, exiled the eastern Dakota from the state entirely to Crow Creek in Dakota Territory, where more than 200 died within six months. Descendants hold federally recognized land today as the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe, the Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska, and — after some families were allowed to return beginning in the 1880s — the Lower Sioux, Prairie Island, Upper Sioux, and Shakopee Mdewakanton communities back in the Minnesota River valley itself.
The atlas holds 6 border frames for Dakota (Santee) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1300 · 1640 · 1746 · 1801 · 1851 · 1863.
A history of the eastern (Santee) Dakota and their relations in the upper Mississippi valley, 1650-1862.
A broad Native-centered history of the United States (regional context for the Dakota).
Authoritative tribal-scholar account of Sioux political and cultural history, covering the Dakota (Santee) bands specifically alongside the broader Oceti Sakowin.
Written in the 1940s by Dakota/Nakota ethnographer-novelist Ella Cara Deloria (Yankton Dakota) and published posthumously, this is a celebrated fictionalized portrait of 19th-century Sioux camp life; the author's own affiliation is Yankton rather than Santee Dakota specifically, a modest stretch for the broader Dakota fit.