Traverse des Sioux Historical Marker – St. Peter, MN
N 44° 20.938 W 093° 57.051
15T E 424214 N 4911072
This historical marker is in front of the Treaty Site History Center located on Highway 169 north of St. Peter.
Waymark Code: WMC893
Location: Minnesota, United States
Date Posted: 08/07/2011
Views: 7
This historical marker is in front of the Treaty Site History Center located on Highway 169 north of St. Peter. The text reads:
“Traverse des Sioux. This ancient fording place, the ‘Crossing of the Sioux,’ was on the heavily traveled trail from St. Paul and Fort Snelling to the Upper Minnesota and the Red River valleys.
“Here, on June 30, 1851, Governor Alexander Ramsey, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Luke Lea, Delegate to Congress Henry H. Sibley, and other government officials established a camp on a height overlooking the small trading post and mission on the riverbank. They had gathered to negotiate an important treaty with representatives of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux for almost twenty-four million acres called Suland.
“This vast tract comprised most of Minnesota west of the Mississippi and south of the line between present day St. Cloud and Moorhead, as well as portions of South Dakota and northern Iowa.
“News of the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux on July 23, 1851, started a great land rush, which brought swarms of settlers to the fertile lands acquired by the United States from the Sioux.”
This historical marker was erected in 1968 by the Minnesota Historical Society.
Marker Type:: Roadside
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