Little Crow

Little Crow (Sioux: Thaóyate Dúta; ca.

1810–July 3, 1863) is a chief of the Mdewakanton Dakota Sioux.

His given name translates as "His Red Nation," (Thaóyate Dúta) but he is known as Little Crow because of his father's name, Čhetáŋ Wakhúwa Máni, (literally, "Hawk that chases/hunts walking") which is mistranslated.

Little Crow is notable for his role in the negotiation of the Treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota of 1851, in which he agrees to the movement of his band of the Dakota to a reservation near the Minnesota River in exchange for goods and certain other rights.

However, the government reneges on its promises to provide food and annuities to the tribe, and Little Crow is forced to support the decision of a Dakota war council in 1862 to pursue war to drive out the whites from Minnesota.

Little Crow participates in the Dakota War of 1862, but retreats in September 1862 before the war's conclusion in December 1862.

Little Crow is shot and killed on July 3, 1863 by a settler who wishes to collect the bounty for killing Dakota Indians in Minnesota.

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