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Image: Kaposia Village (1851)

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Description: In 1851, Frank Blackwell Mayer traveled to Minnesota Territory to attend the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux between the Dakota and the U.S. government, and was invited by missionary Dr. Thomas Smith Williamson to visit his residence at Kaposia (also known as Little Crow's village), which was "situated on a small piece of bottom land which intervenes between the bluffs & the Mississippi river."
Title: Kaposia Village (1851)
Credit: Sioux Indian drawings and oil paintings, 1851-1886
Author: Frank Blackwell Mayer
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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