Is there a name list of Fort Ridgely refugees from the Sioux Uprising?

Question

Looking all over the place, need help! Trying to locate accounts of my great-great grandmother who was 17 years old during the uprising. She is somehow connected to the Sioux Uprising/Dakota Wars of 1862. Her name is Josephine Caroline Nelsen, although spelling may be different or the first and middle names could have been reversed.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

good luck. my great grandmother was taken from her family and raised in a white christian home. they were given white names, and wouldnt give out their tribal names. mine was lakota sioux and only my great grandfather knew what really happened. there are no birth records, but that was common back then. in our case, they kept it a secret because my grandmother, her brother and sister wouldnt have been considered white. you can pretty much figure her name was not nelson.

Answer 2

D.C.:
There is a group which holds battle renenactments at Fort Ridgley State Park. I have the name and phone number of the lady wo coordinates them. Sh e might be able to give you some historical resource in the area that would be armed with that list. Send me an e-mail, via my profile, and I'll provide it.

Answer 3

go to this website and you can find out about most of the different Sioux tribes; on some of them they have tips and links to searching for your native american ancestors and thier histories.

www.manataka.org/page12.html#RECOGNIZED