- Born
- 1827
- Died
- 1906
- Birthplace
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16 statements · 19% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
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5 identifiers linking Big Eagle across the web's reference databases
16 statements · 19% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
5 identifiers linking Big Eagle across the web's reference databases
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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.