Dakota Territory

American  

noun

1. a territory in the N central U.S., from 1861 to 1868 comprising present-day North Dakota and South Dakota, and parts of Montana and Wyoming.

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Example Sentences

The Lakota chief Sitting Bull and his starving band of followers ended nearly two decades of intermittent warfare with the United States on July 20, 1881, when they surrendered at Fort Buford, in Dakota Territory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Theodore Roosevelt, for example, left his infant daughter Alice with his sister and escaped to a ranch in the Dakota Territory after his mother and wife both died on Valentine’s Day 1884.

From Slate • Jul. 4, 2022

The 19th century scientist traveled from the Dakota Territory to Brazil in order to collect specimens.

From Salon • Sep. 22, 2021

The show, which is regarded by Milch, and by many critics, as his best work, was set in the Dakota Territory in the eighteen-seventies.

From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019

As a former deputy sheriff in the wild Badlands of the Dakota Territory, Roosevelt, however, believed that killing Julio was justified.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple