Show FN NORTH JORTH 0 R j STAR S rv tar A e sioux indians were driven from minnesota but their glory still lives in the world famous land of lakes t V Z 4 k fr Dr narea OY D Nati national society tio clety washington ashington D C service M minnesotan MIN human inhabitants primitive the sioux are now almost as rare within the state borders as the caribou this is not liot wholly the white mans fault before the white man came as s a settler the C hippe chippe was from the east had driven the sioux out of the northern part of the state anciently their winter home to the south thus when the white man came he found the chippe was established in the north living in hemispherical huts traveling in canoes and in the south the sioux living in conical affa buffa lohide lo hide tepees and riding on ponies the woods indian and the prairie indian while the lumber mans ax advanced into the domain of the one the farmers plow advanced into that of the other the plow proved to be the deadlier weapon the sioux resented this extremely besides they were treated by the white man with little tact and less frankness or so they certainly felt this complex resentment boiled up into the sioux outbreak bloodiest indian rebellion in the history of the republic the panic which spread among the scattered settlers can be imagined the plows that had begun to cut into the grove dotted edges of the south were abandoned but fortunately tuna tely the sioux got licked at last and as a reward for what they had done they were expelled forever chippeway Chipp ewas diplomatic meanwhile the chippeway Chipp ewas tried the me opposite tactics an attempt to reason with the great white father as he manifested himself to them in the is guise of congressional committees land agents and so on the results of this patient policy though bhough not so prompt and decisive as that brought about by the bold play of the sioux have been almost equally disappointing the scandals lithe 0 the land grab at white earth for example which was to have been an w indian utopia make any tive we minnesotan blush however the chippeway Chipp ewas survive A day ay of more intelligent policy seems ems to be da dawning aning their pigeon iziver home is enviable for its natural natura beauty in the north chippewa names n bound even the mighty gaty lp pl v great river was gi given ven its ame mme rn e by these canoe paddlers saddlers padd lers at it s source indian practicality is is ex pressed in in such sach names as bahno lnell wen wild rice menahga Menah Mena hea wen rice menahga Menah Mena hea blueberry 11 or watab gatab tamarack ga root fibers used in sewing birch bark ark together for h hut ut or canoe now for the w white hite man that romantic adventurer trader builder or whatever you choose to call him ine e came first as a trader in furs and was a frenchman he got on deli reil with the ailed indians in fact mared among them like them h he e in in tethered il ed little with natural geography natile ames merely leaving behind a few or such as mille lacs st croix alac lac qui parle terms ris his were the early days indeed in 3 of t th the the L S e states brief history eighteenth Ehtee seventeenth nth century and first half of the anth aring the latter hau half of the eight th century the british traders of e drons ds ons en bay and northwest mp anies 4 were dominant it was period of 0 colorful enterprise quarters f tor or gathering in pelts ABOVE at minnesotan Min lamous itasca park a chippewa chief displays his tribal wares to tourists here in a combined primitive mod ern state dwell the remnants of a once great race from trading stations extending as far west as the yellowstone and saskatchewan katch ewan were established at grand portage at the extreme outer cor corner ner of minnesotan Min north by byone bygone ta one glory the first cattle in all the northwest grazed around that bay 70 canoes of 40 foot length formed the yearly quota of the boat builders and up the portage itself to the calm upper waters of the pigeon river which in turn gave access to the whole interior of a continent went supplies and trinkets over that path now grown up in violets and the wistful pale clintonia came furs destined for the neck of madame du barry or beau brum mells beaver hat the old grand portage is of geographical importance for another reason at the close of the revolution the treaty of paris established the northwest boundary of the new unit w fays FT ft s yf if V A bwy VW A 7 ei A v za if 3 11 aie r in minnesotan Min lakes which once echoed the redmans red mans war dance modern re sorters now be sport themselves ed states as passing through lake superior to the long lake thence through the said long lake to the lake of the woods now this long L ong lake proved in later late r years to be a joker boher which long lake bul bulging i fy boundary 6 hazy knowledge of geography hy as incorporated in early treaties also accounts for that odd bulge in the northern boundary of the state the northwest angle a promontory attached to canada and divided from minnesota by the lake of the woods northernmost part ot of this is the united states exclusive of alaska the who has collector the stamp postmarked menasse penasse Pe nasset a stamp boast an item from the minn n n can northern northernmost most post boffl office ce of the 48 states the british fur trade was in turn the ame american rican grand eted by supplanted abandoned and fu furs irs portage was the world found th their air way out to route by a i southern of commerce paul this mendota and st through its importance as city retains latter day dav a fur mart to the present |