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Native American leader (1827-1906)

United StatesLived 1827 to 1906 · aged 79
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Big Eagle was the chief of a band of Mdewakanton Dakota in Minnesota. He played an important role as a military leader in the Dakota War of 1862. Big Eagle surrendered soon after the Battle of Wood Lake and was sentenced to death and imprisoned, but was pardoned by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864.

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Big Eagle (far left) went to Washington, DC in 1858 as part of the Mdewakanton & Wahpkute Dakota Treaty DelegationBig Eagle (far left) went to Washington, DC in 1858 as part of the Mdewakanton & Wahpkute Dakota Treaty DelegationChief Big Eagle (1858)Chief Big Eagle (1858)Chief Wabasha (1858)Chief Wabasha (1858)Lithograph depicting the Battle of Birch CouleeLithograph depicting the Battle of Birch CouleeBirch Coulee battlefieldBirch Coulee battlefieldChief Mankato (1858)Chief Mankato (1858)Artist's rendition of Big Eagle (1864)Artist's rendition of Big Eagle (1864)

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Big Eagle was the chief of a band of Mdewakanton Dakota in Minnesota. He played an important role as a military leader in the Dakota War of 1862. Big Eagle surrendered soon after the Battle of Wood Lake and was sentenced to death and imprisoned, but was pardoned by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864. Big Eagle's narrative, "A Sioux Story of the War" was first published in 1894, and is one of the most widely cited first-person accounts of the 1862 war in Minnesota from a Dakota point of view.

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United States
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Lived 1827 to 1906 · aged 79
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