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TREATY QUESTIONS
USE THE TREATY HANDOUT
-Describe the purpose of the 1825 Prairie du Chien Treaty.
-What was the Nelson Act?
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USE THE SUPPLIED HAND OUT OF NATIVE AMERICAN NAMES
-What are the native American names for the following places or nouns?
Dakota Ojibwe
Lake Lake
River River
Island Town
Waterfall Tree
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USE THE 1820’S MAPS OF THE FORT SNELLING AREA
-What is the other Anglo name for the Minnesota River?
-What is at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers?
On top the bluff
In the valley by the river
-What was at St. Anthony Falls?
-What was along the Red River just into Canada?
-What Business enterprises were near Fort Snelling?
-How many villages were near Fort Snelling?
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EXAMINE A COUNTY MAP OF MINNESOTA
Name 10 counties that appear to have been named after Native Americans or Native American words.
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USE THE COLOR HANDOUTS
On your Settlement Map of Minnesota, locate the following
-Draw lines to indicate which and where three tribes controlled the ceded land.
-Where did Capt. Pike acquire land?
-Where was Chief Wabasha’s Village?
-What village was at New Ulm?
-Who was the chief of the village near Hastings?
-What three features were used to indicate the treaty land boundary just north of the Mississippi River?
-What commercial activity was near Wabasha?
-What was near Duluth in 1842?
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USE THE KANABEC COUNTY (SOUTHERN HALF) MAP FROM 1874
-What is on the north edge of Fish Lake?
-How many and what are the camps on the map?
-What are two settler activities near Brunswick?
-There are several settler roads on the map, are any of them still there today in the atlas? Name/#?
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USE YOUR ATLAS AND THE SETTLEMENT MAP
When Treaties and Reservations are established, Military Roads are often established to patrol between settlers and Native Americans along the edge.
-Compare the following atlas pages with the Settlement Map and draw the location of the road on the map to indicate what part of the road might have been a Military road. Label the Highway number.
36-37 37-38 84-85 26 74-75
Label three highways that still follow Native American and Early settlers routes on the map.
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