GC3E855 Ish-Tak-Ha-Ba (Chief Sleepy Eyes) (Traditional Cache) in Minnesota, United States created by VeeRich

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GC3E855 ▼

A cache by VeeRich Message this owner

Hidden : 3/10/2012

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Geocache Description:

BYOP.

This cache is close to the railroad tracks. DO NOT go near the railroad tracks - the cache can only be retrieved from inside the fenced in area or east of the monument.

Ish-Tak-Ha-Ba - Chief Sleepy Eyes
Always a friend of the whites. Died 1860.

"Sleepy Eyes, or Drooping Eyelids, was born about 1780 in a Sisseton Sioux Indian village at Swan Lake in Nicollet County. The bureau of Indian Affairs commissioned him a chief in 1824. His fame was achieved not as a warrior or hunter but as a friend to explorers, traders, missionaries and government officials.

Chief Sleepy Eyes signed several treaties - Prairie du Chien in 1824 and 1830, St. Peters (Mendota) in 1836, and finally, reluctantly, Traverse des Sioux in 1851.

Traditionally his band, often called the Swan Lake or Little Rock band, hunted over a broad area between Swan Lake an dCoteau des Prairies in southwestern Minnesota and southeastern Dakota. After the Spirit Lake Massacre in 1857, frightened settlers demanded that Sleepy Eyes' wandering band remain on reservation land along the Minnesota River. From 1857 to 1859 his chief village was at Sleepy Eye Lake, near this plaque.

Sleepy Eyes dies about 1860 while hunting in Roberts County, South Dakota, and is not to be confused with a nephew of the same name who was implicated in the uprising of 1862. In 1898 the old chief's grave was located and in 1902 he was re-buried on this site near his last home."

Be sure to check out the Sleepy Eye Depot Museum to the west of the monument and the Chief Sleepy Eyes statue south-east kitty corner - near the post office.

FIRST TO FIND: tdhaler on 3/12/2012

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