A digital graphic with the text "Treaty of Traverse des Sioux Exhibit Tours" over layered images—including a historical document, a Native American man, and sketches—invites you to a guided history tour in Saint Peter, Minnesota.

Treaty of Traverse des Sioux Exhibit Tours

One hundred seventy-five years ago, Dakota leaders signed a treaty on this land that changed everything for their communities and for the place you now call home. Join a guided exhibit tour at the Treaty Site History Center to explore that history and the legacy that still shapes southern Minnesota

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A digital graphic with the text "Treaty of Traverse des Sioux Exhibit Tours" over layered images—including a historical document, a Native American man, and sketches—invites you to a guided history tour in Saint Peter, Minnesota.

Treaty of Traverse des Sioux Exhibit Tours

One hundred seventy-five years ago, Dakota leaders signed a treaty on this land that changed everything for their communities and for the place you now call home. Join a guided exhibit tour at the Treaty Site History Center to explore that history and the legacy that still shapes southern Minnesota

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A digital graphic with the text "Treaty of Traverse des Sioux Exhibit Tours" over layered images—including a historical document, a Native American man, and sketches—invites you to a guided history tour in Saint Peter, Minnesota.

Treaty of Traverse des Sioux Exhibit Tours

One hundred seventy-five years ago, Dakota leaders signed a treaty on this land that changed everything for their communities and for the place you now call home. Join a guided exhibit tour at the Treaty Site History Center to explore that history and the legacy that still shapes southern Minnesota

Continue reading
A digital graphic with the text "Treaty of Traverse des Sioux Exhibit Tours" over layered images—including a historical document, a Native American man, and sketches—invites you to a guided history tour in Saint Peter, Minnesota.

Treaty of Traverse des Sioux Exhibit Tours

One hundred seventy-five years ago, Dakota leaders signed a treaty on this land that changed everything for their communities and for the place you now call home. Join a guided exhibit tour at the Treaty Site History Center to explore that history and the legacy that still shapes southern Minnesota

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A digital graphic with the text "Treaty of Traverse des Sioux Exhibit Tours" over layered images—including a historical document, a Native American man, and sketches—invites you to a guided history tour in Saint Peter, Minnesota.

Treaty of Traverse des Sioux Exhibit Tours

One hundred seventy-five years ago, Dakota leaders signed a treaty on this land that changed everything for their communities and for the place you now call home. Join a guided exhibit tour at the Treaty Site History Center to explore that history and the legacy that still shapes southern Minnesota

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A digital graphic with the text "Treaty of Traverse des Sioux Exhibit Tours" over layered images—including a historical document, a Native American man, and sketches—invites you to a guided history tour in Saint Peter, Minnesota.

Treaty of Traverse des Sioux Exhibit Tours

One hundred seventy-five years ago, Dakota leaders signed a treaty on this land that changed everything for their communities and for the place you now call home. Join a guided exhibit tour at the Treaty Site History Center to explore that history and the legacy that still shapes southern Minnesota

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NUMEROUS TREATY VIOLATIONS

The Dakota never saw most of the money they were owed. The reservation decreased from 50 miles on either side of the Minnesota River in 1851 to 10 miles by 1858. The treaty failed to provide a new sustainable life for the Dakota. Crop failures, lack of game, and broken

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Millet, Francis Davis. The Signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux. 1905. Nicollet County Historical Society Collections.

1851 TREATY OF TRAVERSE DES SIOUX

The Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed on July 23, 1851, was a turning point in state and national history.

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