Indian Boundary

Isanti County · U. S. highway 65, Isanti · location approximate

Through this point from southeast to northwest extended the Indian Boundary as defined by the Prairie du Chien Treaty of 1825, as surveyed and marked by the government. To the south was Sioux country, to the north, Chippewa, but neither tribe paid much attention to the line.

Verbatim 1940 text, presented as a historical record, not current interpretation. Minnesota now calls the 1862 conflict the U.S.-Dakota War and has since replaced the wording on some of these signs.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Minnesota Historical Records Survey Project, Work Projects Administration, Guide to Historic Markers Erected by the State Highway Department Cooperating with the Minnesota Historical Society (1940)

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