Formal agreement between two or more countries

Fort built in Minnesota to keep the British out of American territory

Dakota cede their lands in southern MN

Belief that Americans should control the continent

Represented the government with American Indians

Important Mdewakanton chief that signed the Treaty of Mendota

Little Crow's Dakota name

annual payment of food and money to American Indians

land set aside for American Indian tribes

adopting the culture, habits, and values of a larger group

1803 sale of land from France to the U.S.

Found the Mississippi headwaters in 1832

The village that became St. Paul

Law signed by Andrew Jackson for taking American Indian lands in the east

authority to make laws or govern oneself

The size of the Louisiana Purchase

Indian Agent at Fort Snelling 1820 to 1839

Ran the Mendota Trading Post for the American Fur Company

Big fashion reason for the fur trade

Minnesota's first timber communities

Built the first Catholic chapel in St. Paul

A person of mixed French Canadian and Native American ancestry

a fur trader with an African-American father and Ojibwe mother, who served as an interpreter during treaty negotiations between the U.S. and Ojibwe

A missionary among the Dakota who also helped interpret treaties

Dakota word for first born daughter

Dakota word for first born son

Missionary appalled by the unfairness of the treaties

Asked for a copy of the treaty because he didn't trust whites

important newspaperman whose paper became the Pioneer Press