Why Treaties Matter Exhibit

Treaties with the Dakota and Ojibwe nations played a major role in shaping what we know as Minnesota today. In fact, one of every ten treaties ever signed between the United States and American Indians involved people and land in what is now Minnesota. Take some time while you’re at the State Capitol to brush up on this important history.

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As noted above, this is an exhibit, so you’ll want to focus on the State Capitol’s new public spaces for exhibitions and galleries. As for where you might find these new exhibit spaces, we offer two hints: First, the treaties highlighted in this exhibit involved three sovereign nations: the U.S., the Dakota, and the Ojibwe. Second, you could learn much more about the history of these treaties at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian -- which helped organize this exhibit at the Capitol -- but you’d have to drive or fly east to Washington D.C. to do that.