When General Sibley went out among them on his later punitive campaign he had his hands full for many a long and weary day.
Events following the close of the Civil War did not mend matters in the Indian situation.

The railroads had large land grants given to them along their lines, and they began to offer these lands for sale to settlers.

Soldier scrip entitling the holder to locate on public lands now began to float about.

Some of the engineers, even some of the laborers, upon the railroads, seeing how really feasible was the settlement of these Plains, began to edge out and to set up their homes, usually not far from the railway lines.

All this increase in the numbers of the white population not only infuriated the Indians the more, but gave them the better chance to inflict damage upon our people.