Sectional map of southern Minnesota "Entered accordinly to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by S. Holsteen in the Clerks Office of the District Court of Minnesota." GIF format (44 KB) PDF format (1522 KB) Title: 1854 Treaty Map Author: MNDNR Subject: 1854 Treaty Map Created Date: 11/14/2000 12:23:12 PM LC Land ownership maps, 641 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Legal history; Text of the 1854 treaty ; 1854 Treaty Authority Web site; 1854 treaty area map. The Minnesota Territory itself was formed only in 1849 but the area had a rich history well before this. In 1854, the Chippewa of Lake Superior entered into a treaty with the United States whereby the Chippewa ceded to the United States ownership of their lands in northeastern Minnesota. The Ho-Chunk farmed the area's rich soil with some success but drew the hostility of settler-colonist neighbors who wanted the land for themselves. Explore each treaty and see how changing boundaries reflect the influx of settlers and displacement of the Dakota, Ojibwe, and Ho-Chunk. administered from Wisconsin. The territorial era of Minnesota lasted from the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to Minnesota's achieving statehood in 1858. Minnesota's 1837, 1854 and 1855 Ojibwe treaties The bulk of what is now Minnesota was signed over to the U.S. government in a series of a dozen … The treaty by which the Ojibwe ceded the Arrowhead Region of Minnesota, opening the area for townsite development and mining, was signed in 1854. These two treaties ceded all land in Minnesota 1855 treaty with Minnesota Winnebagoes (Ho-Chunk) cedes 900,000 acres land in Minnesota Winnebagoes keep small reservation in southeastern part of state. Honor the Earth webpage on Anishinaabe Treaty Rights Sectional map of southern Minnesota "Entered accordinly to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by S. Holsteen in the Clerks Office of the District Court of Minnesota." LC Land ownership maps, 641 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Starting in 1805, the United States negotiated treaties with Minnesota's indigenous peoples. In 1855, a federal treaty moved the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) people from their reservation near Long Prairie to a site along the Blue Earth River. An Inter-Tribal natural resource management agency that manages the off-reservation hunting, fishing and gathering rights of the Bois Forte Band and the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in the lands ceded under the treaty of 1854 MPR Article (2/1/16) - "Explaining Minnesota's 1837, 1854 and 1855 Ojibwe treaties" MPR Article (1/8/16) - "Tribal protestors charged for gathering fish and wild rice" 1855 Treaty with the Chippewa: Full text. 1865 Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) cede upper Missouri river, in exchange for land recently ceded by Osages in Five days before the treaty signing, Carlton formed a company in Ohio for the purpose of obtaining mineral locations and lands in what is now the State of Minnesota. Land Cession Treaties; Prairie Du Chien Treaties; 1837 Ojibwe & Dakota; 1847 Ojibwe; 1851 Dakota; 1854 Ojibwe; 1855 Ojibwe; 1858 Dakota; 1863 Red Lake/Pembina Wisconsin, agency.