A man named Henry Lott, cited as an “unscrupulous character” by an article in 1886 in the Sibley Gazette, had an encounter with Sintominaduta, Inkpaduta’s brother, and blamed the Wahpekuti tribe for burning his cabin and killing his family, although that didn’t actually occur. Her father was dead where he stood; her mother, who had lunged for the gun, was bludgeoned with the butt of it, and death began. Inkpaduta, 60, an old man with the knowledge of decades and the power of a new ruler and a heart that was broken—he, they, what was left of the Wahpekute Dakota, returned to the land they loved, only to find that in their time away, someone else had built upon it walls and a door. 20, No. Abbie Gardner Sharp, photographed decades after the massacre, Inkpaduta led a small band of Wahpekutes who had been expelled from the main band in dissension following the murder of a chief in 1840. Roger Stoner's "Horse Woman's Child" 2011, depicts historical depictions, information and relative events before and up to the Massacre. The site of the state’s last massacre became the state’s first tourist attraction. Lands were not adequately plowed for cultivation. A number of Confederate irregulars, dressed in Union uniforms, came across the border. [6] As the tribe destroyed homes and lives on their journey, they came across Jowl Howe, who was also decapitated. His name is Red End because that is what happened to his face. [7] The warriors killed 35-40 settlers, regardless of age or gender. Roger Stoner's "Horse Woman's Child" 2011, depicts historical depictions, information and relative events before and up to the Massacre. One morning at Lakeside last summer, I woke up early and rode my bike four miles to Cayler Prairie. Within months, 1,500 Iowa volunteers were ready for action. Nevertheless, fear of her rape was used, as Abbie documents in her memoir, to rally state and territory troops. ,[11] completed negotiations for the ransom of Abbie Gardner, who was returned to Spirit Lake. The causes of the massacre are still debated. Abbie herself oversaw much of that restoration, filling it in 1892 with items that reminded her of what life had been like, there with her family, in 1857. Finding Sidominadotah and his band camped on the Des Moines River about 30 miles north of Fort Dodge, Lott and his stepson attacked the camp, killing the chief, his mother, his wife, and their four children. She made pancakes. Suffering a shortage of food, the renegade chief Inkpaduta (Scarlet Point) led 14 Sioux against the settlements near Okoboji and Spirit lakes in the northwestern territory of Iowa near the Minnesota border, in revenge of the murder of Inkpaduta's brother, Sidominadotah, and Sidominadotah's family by Henry Lott. Though no descendants from either side still live there, burr oaks—tiny saplings, perhaps, at the time of the conflict—stand and wave their arms in the air like people, and the Gardner cabin has been restored to almost its original form. Defenseless, and hungry, the band moved north. Updates? As a child, nestled against her brother and sister, Abbie had slept in one just like it. Gardner survived with, and then off of, her memories and her loss. Spirit Lake Massacre, (March 8–12, 1857), incident in northwestern Iowa, U.S., in which a band of Sioux Indians led by Inkpaduta killed more than 30 white people. Suffering a shortage of food, the renegade chief Inkpaduta (Scarlet Point) led 14 Sioux against the settlements near Okoboji and Spirit lakes in the northwestern territory of Iowa near the Minnesota border, in revenge of the murder of Inkpaduta's brother, Sidominadotah, and Sidominadotah's family by Henry Lott. The Spirit Lake Massacre (March 8–12, 1857) was an attack by a Wahpekute band of Santee Sioux on scattered Iowa frontier settlements during a severe winter. After years of marriage and living elsewhere, Gardner-Sharp returned to Spirit Lake in 1891 and bought her former family cabin. The roads were damp and dirt and mud thickened my jeans; although it was cool out, I began to sweat under the sun. When contact was made with Inkpaduta's group, the officials found that two of the captive women had been killed. To the south, the danger came from pro-Confederate border raiders. Mike is a 69-year-old local historian and lifelong resident of Arnolds Park, where he was elected to city council five times and where he spent 25 years of his life as the manager of the Gardner cabin’s one-room museum, until 2012, when state funding evaporated and he was let go. For ransom, for protection, Abbie Gardner was not killed, although, she writes, she begged to be. Most lived in the area locally referred to these days as Okoboji, as in West Okoboji Lake, the one that hangs like a locket from the others when you look at a regional map. [4] They managed to acquire arms and retaliated by attacking settlements there and at Spirit Lake.[2]. [10], While settlers demanded vengeance and rumors proliferated, the territorial authorities decided not to act against the Sioux until the captives had been returned. The Indians were also conscious of the existing treaty and they knew the white people were not to encroach on Indian land. The laws of the United States, so willing to overlook Dakota rights to the same land in favor of her white father, now in turn ignored Abbie’s. Upon her ransom and return, she lived with relatives of another murdered settler, and ended up marrying one of them very quickly. The Sioux resented the failure of the government to fulfill treaty obligations; they were starving due to inadequate rations and annuities at the reservations. Upon arrival, I leaned my bike on a fence and began, following a place where the grass seems most matted down—a DNR path, maybe, or a deer run, and quickly began to grunt and push. Search |
According to Abbie, her father grabbed his gun and instructed his family to brace for death, even as he swore to take the Dakota down with them. The settlers tried to plow the tallgrass prairie, blue-green stalks taller than some men, for the first time in its existence on earth. [6] The monument erected in 1895 reflected the attitudes of the European-American society, in terms of memorializing its pioneers and disregarding the indigenous peoples they had displaced. A warrior of the group, who approached the Gillett cabin, was shot and decapitated while looking for food and rifles. Two months ago, my phone lit up with snapshots of paintings Mike had done of his leg while recuperating from necrotizing fasciitis at the VA hospital in Sioux City, where he was also busted for pot use, twice in one day. [2] During the summer, after struggling to marshal troops and attract allied Sioux warriors, the Indian Agency pursued Inkpaduta and his band, but most evaded capture. So many visitors, flush with capital from the Industrial Revolution’s second act and able to purchase leisure for the first time in their lives, came to the cabin to hear Abbie’s rendition of events and take her tour of the land that in 1921 the town built a roller coaster a ten-minute walk to its east. As they encountered more new settlers, conflicts arose. When his brother was killed, Inkpaduta attempted to go through white channels of justice: the US Army ignored his petition, and the only prosecutor around took Inkpaduta’s brother’s head from the whiskey trader and nailed it to a pole over his house. I wrote. Native people were sometimes beaten and chased for stealing livestock and scavenging grain in harvested fields; thus, weary of the group, who in turn "borrowed" community items freely if they could, a vigilante group from Smithland went out to their encampment. As is Mike’s conversational trademark, the details were frank and enthusiastically forthcoming, but I, who was driving and am bad with blood, felt my wrists go weak on the wheel and my eyelids sank until I changed the subject to the fictionalized biography on Inkpaduta he’s been working on for the last two years. Whites reacted by attacking some innocent Sioux who were hunting near settlements. Because of the heavy snows, a relief expedition from Fort Dodge failed to arrive in time to defend Springfield. It was the last Native American attack on settlers in Iowa, but the events increased tensions between the Sioux and settlers in the Minnesota Territory. The town erected an historical monument to commemorate the attack. “Oh, she definitely had PTSD, they just didn’t call it that back then,” Mike told me. Also struggling that winter, whites rebuffed the Indians with violence and a posse disarmed Inkpaduta's band after they killed a settler's dog that had bitten one of the band. Perhaps the first raid of the Spirit Lake Massacre came at Lost Island Lake, now near Ruthven, Iowa. Prairie is wetter than you think, and full of flowers, which means it’s also full of butterflies and birds. Defenseless, and hungry, the band moved north. Mike told me about this and other atrocities, involving long-dead generals whose names are now gifted to rivers, and children of all colors who starved that winter on ground too frozen to crack open and hold their bodies. Mike described the birth scene he was working on—a stream, Inkpaduta’s mother laboring, a baby’s tiny cry—and how it was tradition that members of Inkpaduta’s tribe be given a baby name, changed upon young adulthood to something reflective of a quality the member seemed to possess. The names change approximately every 30 feet: Lakeside, Milford, Lakeview, Wahpeton, Triboji, West Okoboji, Arnolds Park, East Okoboji, Pillsbury Point. Another expedition from Fort Ridgely in Minnesota pursued Inkpaduta and his band, but failed to catch them. Once people learned of the attacks, a relief party was sent north from Fort Dodge and southwest from Fort Ridgely.
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