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The Treaty Story

Territory Trivia

The Dakota Indian leader who signed a treaty in 1858:

Mankato
Amos Owen

1858
Mankato, a Mdewakanton leader, signed a treaty that ceded Dakota land north of the Minnesota River.

 

  1978
Amos Owen was a Dakota spiritual leader and pipe carver from Prairie Island.