Terms
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Ulysses S. Grant | The 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) and military commander during the Civil War. | |
Upper Sioux Agency | One of two Indian agencies established to be an administrative center for newly formed Dakota reservations in 1853. | |
Upper Sioux Community (Pejuhutazizi Oyate) | A Dakota community located in Minnesota Falls Township along the Minnesota River in eastern Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. A Dakota homeland for centuries, the Dakota were forced to leave this area or killed after the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. 746 acres of the area were returned to the tribe in 1938. |