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The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, [1] until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.
The Dakotas, also known as simply Dakota, is a collective term for the U.S. states of North Dakota and South Dakota.It has been used historically to describe the Dakota Territory, and is still used for the collective heritage, [2] culture, geography, [3] fauna, [4] sociology, [5] economy, [6] [7] and cuisine [8] of the two states.
The governor of Dakota Territory was the head of government of Dakota Territory, a territory of the United States from March 2, 1861, [1] to November 2, 1889, when it was split into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota.
The Dakota Territorial Supreme Court was the highest court of the Dakota Territory, then an organized incorporated territory of the United States.It was the first Territorial Supreme Court in American history, and was established under Article One of the United States Constitution, with justices were appointed directly by the President of the United States.
Established by Congress in 1861, Dakota Territory comprised North and South Dakota, northern Wyoming, and most of Montana, from what had previously been the northern portion of Nebraska Territory. [1] From 1861 to 1889, Dakota Territory sent a single non-voting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives.
The US gave the name "Dakota Territory" to the northern expanse west of the Mississippi River and up to its headwaters. [7] [failed verification] After the Dakota War of 1862, the federal government expelled the Santee (who included the Mdewakanton) from Minnesota.
Fort Buford was a United States Army Post at the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers in Dakota Territory, present day North Dakota, and the site of Sitting Bull's surrender in 1881. [1] Detail of map "Dakota Territory", 1878, showing location of Fort Buford (ND) and Fort Buford Military Reservation, partly in North Dakota, partly ...
Fort Rice (Lakota: Psíŋ Otȟúŋwahe; "Wild Rice Village") was a frontier military fort in the 19th century named for American Civil War General James Clay Rice in what was then Dakota Territory and what is now North Dakota. [1] The 50th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment became the garrison in October 1865.