Minnesota Treaty Interactive

Starting in 1805, the United States negotiated treaties with Minnesota's indigenous peoples. Explore each treaty and see how changing boundaries reflect the influx of settlers and displacement of the Dakota, Ojibwe, and Ho-Chunk.

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Title	Other Details
Title First Nations	Other Details Date: Pre 1805 Source Link: n/a
Title 1805 treaty with the Dakota	Other Details Date: 9/23/1805 Source Link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hlaw:@filreq(@band(@field(DATE+18050923)+@field(FLD003+@band(llss+c56)))+@field(COLLID+llss))
Title 1825 treaty at Prairie du Chien	Other Details Date: 8/19/1825 Source Link: n/a
Title 1830 "Half Breed Tract"	Other Details Date: 7/15/1830 Source Link: n/a
Title 1832 treaty with the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)	Other Details Date: 9/15/1832 Source Link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hlaw:5:./temp/~ammem_NOkR::
Title The treaties of 1837	Other Details Date: 7/29/1837 Source Link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hlaw:@filreq(@band(@field(DATE+18370729)+@field(FLD003+@band(llss+c56)))+@field(COLLID+llss))
Title The treaties of 1837	Other Details Date: 9/29/1837 Source Link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hlaw:@filreq(@band(@field(DATE+18370929)+@field(FLD003+@band(llss+c56)))+@field(COLLID+llss))
Title 1846 treaty with the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)	Other Details Date: 10/13/1846 Source Link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hlaw:@filreq(@band(@field(DATE+18461013)+@field(FLD003+@band(llss+c56)))+@field(COLLID+llss))
Title 1847 treaties with the Ojibwe	Other Details Date: 8/2/1847 Source Link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hlaw:@filreq(@band(@field(DATE+18470802)+@field(FLD003+@band(llss+c56)))+@field(COLLID+llss))
Title 1847 treaties with the Ojibwe	Other Details Date: 8/21/1847 Source Link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hlaw:@filreq(@band(@field(DATE+18470821)+@field(FLD003+@band(llss+c56)))+@field(COLLID+llss))
Title 1851 treaties with the Dakota at Traverse des Sioux and Mendota	Other Details Date: 7/23/1851 Source Link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hlaw:@filreq(@band(@field(DATE+18510723)+@field(FLD003+@band(llss+c56)))+@field(COLLID+llss))
Title 1851 treaties with the Dakota at Traverse des Sioux and Mendota	Other Details Date: 8/5/1851 Source Link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hlaw:@filreq(@band(@field(DATE+18510805)+@field(FLD003+@band(llss+c56)))+@field(COLLID+llss))
Title 1854 “arrangement” with the mixed-blood Dakota	Other Details Date: 1854 Source Link: n/a
Title 1854 Treaty of La Pointe	Other Details Date: 9/30/1854 Source Link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hlaw:@filreq(@band(@field(DATE+18540930)+@field(FLD003+@band(llss+c56)))+@field(COLLID+llss))
Title 1855 Treaty of Washington	Other Details Date: 2/22/1855 Source Link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hlaw:@filreq(@band(@field(DATE+18550222)+@field(FLD003+@band(llss+c56)))+@field(COLLID+llss))
Title 1858 treaty with the Dakota	Other Details Date: 6/19/1858 Source Link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hlaw:@filreq(@band(@field(DATE+18580619)+@field(FLD003+@band(llss+c56)))+@field(COLLID+llss))
Title 1863 Dakota Expulsion Act	Other Details Date: 3/3/1863 Source Link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hlaw:@filreq(@band(@field(DATE+18630303)+@field(FLD003+@band(llss+c56)))+@field(COLLID+llss))
Title 1863 treaty with the Ojibwe - Red Lake and Pembina Bands	Other Details Date: 10/2/1863 Source Link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hlaw:@filreq(@band(@field(DATE+18631002)+@field(FLD003+@band(llss+c56)))+@field(COLLID+llss))
Title 1866 treaty with the Ojibwe - Bois Forte Band	Other Details Date: 4/7/1866 Source Link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hlaw:@filreq(@band(@field(DATE+18660407)+@field(FLD003+@band(llss+c56)))+@field(COLLID+llss))