Description The last Indian Raid in Iowa The winter of 1856-7 was a particularly severe one in Iowa, with prolonged heavy snowfall across the region.
Whether or not the violence that.
In March 1857 a chronic shortage of game and other food persuaded the renegade Santee Sioux leader, Scarlet Point, to lead a band of fourteen warriors into the widely separated Settlements near the Okoboji and Spirit Lakes, in north western part of the state close to the Minnesota border.
Description The last Indian Raid in Iowa The winter of 1856-7 was a particularly severe one in Iowa, with prolonged heavy snowfall across the region