April 12, 2024
Treaty of Traverse des Sioux Booklet 1924 Indians MN
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This is the "Treaty of Traverse des Sioux" July 23, 1851 booklet. It was republished in 1924 compliments of St. Peter Herald, Essler & Quane, Props. St. Peter, Minn. MN. The 2nd picture shows the huge granite boulder that was erected on a concrete pedestal on the site where the famous treaty was transacted on July 23, 1851 by Captain Richard Sommers Chapters, Daughters of the American Revolution.. The site is 3 miles north of St. Peter on then Trunk Highway No. 5 - which I believe is now Highway 169. The largest trading post in the Northwest was at Traverse des Sioux - the leading chiefs of the Sisseton, Wahpeton and Dacotah tribes met there with Governor Alexander Ramsey and Luke Lea, federal commissioner of Indian affairs and the treaty was completed and signed. It gave the Indians $250,000 in annual payments in exhange for deeding away one of the richest areas in the world...for the land west of the Mississippi river and contained approximately 30,000,000 acres. The native american retained a reservation 10 miles in width extending along the Minnesota River from a point a few miles above New Ulm to the headwaters. The paper booklet is 36 pages in length and tells what went on in the days preceding the signing, waiting for the indians and the dignitaries to all assemble. The paper book shows wear in the edge of the spine, pages
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