On this Date in Minnesota History: July 29

July 29, 1837 – On this date at Fort Snelling, Wisconsin Governor Henry Dodge, “[the fort] then in Wisconsin, made a treaty with the Ojibways, by which they ceded to the United States all of their pine lands and agricultural lands on the upper part of the St. Croix river and its tributaries, in the present states of Wisconsin and Minnesota.”

Upham, Warren; Minnesota Geographic Names, Their Origin and Historic Significance; Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, Minn., 1969); p. 171.

http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/minnesota/snelling.html

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