Term: Sandy Lake Tragedy
Definition: U.S. officials forced the Ojibwe to collect their 1850 annuity payment at Sandy Lake, Minn.; 3,000 people made the 500-mile, late-autumn trip only to find no payments and no provisions at Sandy Lake, because the U.S. hoped to strand them there on the west side of the Mississippi; 400 men, women and children (12% of the tribe) died.
[Source: Wyman, Mark. The Wisconsin Frontier (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).]
