This Web site contains activities and stories about Minnesota in the years before it became a state.
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Start your visit here:
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See how treaties changed the boundaries of Minnesota. Examine 150-year-old photographs of people and places from Minnesota's past.
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Discover the many kinds of people who lived in Minnesota. See what objects and written records can tell us about them.
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Take a risk. Buy land and try to sell it at a profit to new settlers. Or operate a fur post, providing supplies on credit to the Dakota Indians in hopes that they have a good winter hunt.
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Experience Minnesota's remarkable weather through the words of Territory newcomers. Manage family expenses while providing food and shelter for the household.
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Step off a Mississippi River steamboat, and experience life in the bustling new city of St. Paul or on a frontier homestead. Visit a Dakota Indian village at Little Rapids, and meet the Red River Métis of Pembina.
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