Qualla: Battle of Whitestone Hill https://qualla.com/battle-of-whitestone-hill en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/c/b/1/w/battle-of-whitestone-hill-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Whitestone Hill https://qualla.com/battle-of-whitestone-hill Battle of Whitestone Hill: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-whitestone-hill/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. A delegation walked forward under a white flag made from a flour sack. The Sioux representatives told Major A. E. House they were peaceful, interested only in hunting, and offered to surrender several chiefs. House demanded unconditional surrender of the entire camp. Both sides were stalling - the Sioux to give women time to pack, House to wait for reinforcements galloping ten miles across the prairie. It was September 3, 1863, on the rolling grasslands of what is now Dickey County, North Dakota, and the fragile negotiation was about to collapse into one of the most devastating attacks on Native people in the northern Great Plains.

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]]> Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/b/1/w/battle-of-whitestone-hill-wp/cb1w-battle-of-whitestone-hill-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Whitestone Hill: Roots in the Minnesota Uprising https://qualla.com/battle-of-whitestone-hill/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The violence at Whitestone Hill grew from the Dakota War of 1862, when a faction of Santee Dakota in Minnesota rose up against the United States over the government's failure to deliver promised food and payments. The rebellion killed more than 600 white settlers, mostly unarmed ...

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]]> Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/b/1/w/battle-of-whitestone-hill-wp/cb1w-battle-of-whitestone-hill-roots-in-the-minnesota-uprising.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Whitestone Hill: Four Hundred Lodges on the Prairie https://qualla.com/battle-of-whitestone-hill/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Sully's force of 1,200 men - the 6th Iowa Cavalry, the 2nd Nebraska Cavalry, eight mountain howitzers, scouts, and a wagon train - searched southeast for the Sioux who had recrossed the Missouri to hunt buffalo for winter provisions. On September 3, his scout Frank LaFramboise, a...

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]]> Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/b/1/w/battle-of-whitestone-hill-wp/cb1w-battle-of-whitestone-hill-four-hundred-lodges-on-the-prairie.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Whitestone Hill: Chaos at Dusk https://qualla.com/battle-of-whitestone-hill/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Sully reached the ridge overlooking the encampment around 6 p.m. with only 600 to 700 of his men. Below, Sioux families were already packing tipis to leave. He deployed the 6th Iowa to the right flank and the 2nd Nebraska to the left, cutting off escape routes through the ravines...

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]]> Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/b/1/w/battle-of-whitestone-hill-wp/cb1w-battle-of-whitestone-hill-chaos-at-dusk.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Whitestone Hill: Ashes and Aftermath https://qualla.com/battle-of-whitestone-hill/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Dawn revealed an empty camp. The Sioux had escaped under cover of darkness. Sully sent patrols but found few. He then ordered everything left behind to be burned: 300 tipis and between 400,000 and 500,000 pounds of dried buffalo meat - an entire winter's food supply, the product ...

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]]> Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/b/1/w/battle-of-whitestone-hill-wp/cb1w-battle-of-whitestone-hill-ashes-and-aftermath.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Whitestone Hill: The Hill Remembers https://qualla.com/battle-of-whitestone-hill/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Today the State Historical Society of North Dakota maintains a portion of the battlefield as Whitestone Hill State Historic Site. Two monuments stand on the prairie grass: one honoring the Sioux dead, the other commemorating the fallen soldiers. A small museum tells both versions...

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