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This Day in Minnesota History

September 15, 1862

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The state of Minnesota and the Ojibwe living near Crow Wing sign a peace treaty. Negotiated to alleviate settler-colonists' fears that the Ojibwe would join in the US–Dakota War, in truth the agreement was void because the state did not have the power to make treaties.

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