Sioux Massacre at Spirit Lake: Two Accounts of the Santee Sioux Attack on the Iowa Settlements in 1857-The Spirit Lake Massacre by Thomas Teakle & a

by Thomas Teakle and R.A. Smith

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Scarlet Point's raid in Iowa

In March 1857, after a particularly severe winter, a band of fourteen starving, renegade Wahpekute Santee Sioux led by Scarlet Point (Inkpaduta) descended on the settlements scattered along the north western Iowa frontier close to the Minnesota border. The Indians were desperate for food and, furthermore, sought revenge for outrages perpetrated against them by white settlers-including the murder of Scarlet Point's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782822003
• ISBN13: 9781782822004
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Leonaur Ltd
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"