Little Crow is notable for his role in negotiating the treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota of 1851, in which he agreed to remove his band of Dakota to a reservation near the Minnesota River in exchange for annuity goods and payments.
Little Crow é coñecido polo seu papel na negociación dos Tratados de "Traverse des Sioux" e de Mendota de 1851, nos cales accedeu ó traslado da súa banda dakota á reserva preto do río Minnesota en troques de bens e dereitos.