Big Eagle
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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 La
Chief Big Eagle (1864)
Big Eagle (far left) went to Washington, DC in 1858 as part of the Mdewakanton & Wahpkute Dakota Treaty Delegation
Chief Big Eagle (1858)
Chief Wabasha (1858)
Battle of Birch Coulee
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The Battle of Birch Coulee occurred on September 2–3, 1862, and resulted in the heaviest casualties suffered by U.S. forces during the Dakota War of 1862. The battle occurred after a group of Dakota w
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…first-person accounts of the 1862 war in Minnesota from a Dakota point of view. Chief Big Eagle is featured in the "Two Men, One War" marker and the "Battle of Birch Coulee – Big Eagle" marker erected by the Minnesota Historical Society at the Birch Coulee Battlefield; he is also quoted in many of the other markers posted…
Battlefield in 2010
Major Joseph R. Brown
Captain Joseph Anderson led the Cullen Frontier Guards