CDV of Ta-Tanka-Nazin "Standing Buffalo Chief of the Sioux of Minnesota Massacre

CDV of Ta-Tanka-Nazin "Standing Buffalo Chief of the Sioux of Minnesota Massacre. Standing Buffalo is seated in full native regalia with his tomahawk in hand this photo was orginally taken by Whitney's Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota. This cdv is from A. W. Barker a photographer in Ottawa, Kansas who also did his own Native American photos as well as copies of other Native Images.
 
The Sioux Uprising took place in 1862. The Dakota War, or Sioux Uprising, was one of the last large scale attempts by Native Americans to expel white settlers from their territory. Denied rations and annuities promised by treaty in return for the forfeiture of the majority of their land, the Sioux decided that an armed revolt was the only option to save their people. Dakota warriors in Minnesota felt the time was ripe for victory, as more and more American men joined the Union during the Civil War, leaving Minnesota largely unprotected by the American military. U.S. Army regiments recalled from the battlefields of the Civil War defeated the Sioux at Wood Lake on September 23, 1862. In the weeks following, U.S. Army Colonel Henry Hastings Sibley arrested more than 2,000 Santee Sioux and instituted a military commission that found 303 guilty of capital crimes under legally circumspect proceedings. President Lincoln upheld the convictions of thirty-eight Sioux and ordered their execution by hanging at Mankato, Minnesota, on December 26, 1862, the largest mass execution in U.S. history.