On this date in Minnesota history: July 6

July 6, 1889 - 3.2 million acres of land were ceded to the Federal Government by the Red Lake Band of Chippewa in 1889, "in exchange for promises of money, education, health care, and aid to farming. A fifty year trust fund was established. However, 80 percent of Red Lake moneys went into a general fund for all Minnesota Chippewa Indians with only a 14 percent return to Red Lake. 

On [this date], at the signing of the Treaty drawn up by the Rice Commission, Red Lake Chief, May-dway-gwa-no-nind (‘he that is spoken to’) made his last talk at the Council and asked that no liquor be allowed on the reservation, saying, ‘It would be the ruin of all these persons that you see here should that misfortune come to them.’ He also asked that a trader be allowed to live amongst them with stores of goods for the Indians to purchase. He then asked Chairman Rice to sign the Treaty before he did."

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Chief May-dway-gwa-no-nind
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Chief May-dway-gwa-no-nind