Baptiste Lasallier, Ho-Chunk leader with Charles Mix, Indian Agent, and a trade merchant, 1857.

Baptiste Lasallier and Charles Mix

Baptiste Lasallier, a Ho-Chunk leader, with Charles Mix, Indian Agent, and a trade merchant, 1857.

Baptiste Lasallier, Ho-Chunk leader

Baptiste Lasallier, Ho-Chunk leader

Black and white photograph of the Ho-Chunk leader Baptiste Lasallier wearing a mix of American Indian and Euro-American clothing, c.1855.

Black-and-white photograph of a Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) encampment taken by Whitney's Gallery, c.1865.

Ho-Chunk Encampment

Black-and-white photograph of a Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) encampment taken by Whitney's Gallery, c.1865.

Ho-Chunk and Long Prairie, 1846–1855

In 1848 the U.S. government removed the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) from their reservation in the northeastern part of Iowa to Long Prairie in Minnesota Territory. The Ho-Chunk found the land at Long Prairie a poor match for their needs as farmers. In 1855 they were moved again, this time to a reservation in southern Minnesota.

Water color painting of Little Crow’s village on the Mississippi by Seth Eastman c.1846–1848.

Taoyateduta’s village at Kaposia

Taoyateduta’s village at Kaposia on the Mississippi River, ca.1846–1848. Water color painting by Seth Eastman.

Illustration depicting an Ojibwe man named Kawetahsay reportedly wounded during the Battle of Shakopee.

Kawetahsay, shot in the mouth at the Battle of Shakopee, 1858

Illustration depicting an Ojibwe man named Kawetahsay reportedly wounded during the Battle of Shakopee, Saint Paul Globe, October 7, 1900.

Black-and-white photograph of the site where the Dakota and Ojibwe fought the Battle of Shakopee in 1858.

Battle ground where the Dakota and Ojibwe fought the Battle of Shakopee in 1858

Black-and-white photograph of the site where the Dakota and Ojibwe fought the Battle of Shakopee in 1858. Photographed c.1875 by William H. Jacoby.

Battle of Shakopee, 1858

The last in a series of violent conflicts between Dakota and Ojibwe people took place on the banks of the Minnesota River north of the village of the Dakota leader Shakpedan (Little Six) on May 27, 1858. Dozens of Ojibwe and Dakota warriors engaged in fighting that claimed lives on both sides but produced no clear victor.

MN90: The controversial life and death of Hole-in-the-Day the Younger

Hole-in-the-Day the Younger (1827–1868) signed almost every land cession treaty between the Minnesota Ojibwe and the U.S. government. MN90 producer Marisa Helms reports that though he was an effective negotiator he was also a controversial figure with many enemies. On June 27, 1868, as he was traveling to Washington, D.C., to fight the removal of his people to a reservation at White Earth, Hole-in-the-Day was assassinated by Ojibwe men from Leech Lake just a few miles from his home in Crow Wing.

Participants at a powwow organized by the Prairie Island Dakota community and held on July 13, 1969. Photographed by Monroe P. Killy.

Prairie Island Dakota Community powwow

Participants at a powwow organized by the Prairie Island Dakota community and held on July 13, 1969. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy.

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