On This Date in Minnesota History: October 5

October 5, 1898 – “The Battle of Sugar Point, or the Battle of Leech Lake, was fought on [this date] between the 3rd U.S. Infantry and members of the Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians in a failed attempt to apprehend Pillager Ojibwe Bugonaygeshig ("Old Bug" or "Hole-In-The-Day"), as the result of a dispute with Indian Service officials on the Leech Lake Reservation in Cass County, Minnesota.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sugar_Point

The marker reads:

Sugar Point Battle

When a Federal Marshall with about 100 troops of the Third Infantry tried to arrest the Chippewa Chief Bugonaygeshig at Sugar Point opposite here on the Northeast shore of the lake a sharp fight occurred October 5, 1898. The whites lost 7 killed and 16 wounded and the arrest was never accomplished. 

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