Little Crow is notable for his role in negotiating the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux and the Treaty of Mendota in 1851. In the second he agreed to move his people to a narrow reservation on either side of the Minnesota River in exchange for annuities and goods. In the summer of 1862, the federal government failed to deliver annuities on time. There were rumors that the 'Great Council' of Congress had expended all their gold fighting the Civil War and did not have the money. Because of this the Dakota were starving. Little Crow supported the decision of a Dakota war council in August 1862 to try to drive the settlers out of the region. Little Crow led warriors in the Dakota War of 1862 that ended in December in Minnesota. But, it had initiated the U.S Government's campaigns against the Sioux nation. Also, unfortunately, a barrel of gold had actually just arrived at Fort Snelling when the hostilities broke and had not been dispensed to the Indian Agencies.