Little Crow - The Fur Trapper’s Patron

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Little Crow (c. 1810 - July 3, 1863) was a chief of a band of the Mdewakanton Dakota people, who were based along the Minnesota River. His given name translates as "His Red Nation", (Thaoyate Duta). Little Crow befriended the fur traders and relied on their support for assistance from the U.S. government. He is notable for his role in negotiating the treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota of 1851, in which he agreed to remove his band of Dakota to a reservation near the Minnesota River in exchange for annuity goods and payments which never came. That left the Dakota starving in the Minnesota Winter.