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The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, [1] ... Map of the Dakota Territory, c. 1886.
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.
Following the conclusion of the Dakota War of 1862, several displaced Dakota people (who now form the Spirit Lake Tribe) had been relocated to the area around Devils Lake. During the mid-1860s, Major General John Pope had put forth plans to create a line of forts across the newly formed Dakota Territory. One of these was to be located on the ...
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 ...
Yankton is a city in and the county seat of Yankton County, South Dakota, United States.It became a city in 1889. The population was 15,411 at the 2020 census, making it the 7th most populous city in South Dakota, [8] and it is the principal city of the Yankton Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes the entirety of Yankton County and which had an estimated population of 23,297 as of ...
Map showing the boundaries of the 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux land cession area (Royce Area 289) ... Dakota Territory, August 9, 1882 Great Sioux Reservation ...
In June 1872, at the same location where the Mandan tribe had established their village, a military post named Fort McKeen was built by two companies of the 6th US Infantry under Lt. Col. Daniel Huston, Jr. (1824-1884) opposite Bismarck, Dakota Territory. [5] Hunting and camping party near Fort Abraham Lincoln (George Custer, center) 1875. (D. B.
Because Deadwood was an illegal town in Indian Territory, non-native civil authorities lacked the jurisdiction to prosecute McCall. McCall's trial was moved to a Dakota Territory court, where he was found guilty of murder and hanged. Beginning August 12, 1876, a smallpox epidemic swept through.