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Prairie Island Indian Reservation (Indian reservation (Native American reservation)) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 44 38 02 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 44.6330 decimal degrees |
| Long: 092 39 07 W degrees minutes |
Long: -92.6510 decimal degrees |
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Note: This is a federally-recognized reservation stewarded by the Dakota Oyate, also known as the Minnesota Mdewakanton Sioux, comprising the Prairie Island Indian Community. The reservation spans approximately 3,308 acres of original reservation and trust lands near the city of Red Wing in Goodhue and Dakota Counties, Minnesota. Though the Bdewakantunwan (Mdewakanton) Band of Eastern Dakota, from whom the members of the Prairie Island Indian Community descend, have occupied present-day Minnesota for countless generations prior to European settlement, they were stripped of their ancestral lands in 1851 through the passage of the Treaty of Mendota and the Treaty of Traverse de Sioux, amongst others. After the federal government's hanging of 38 Dakota men on December 26, 1862, Congress forcibly removed the majority of Dakota people from Minnesota. The Prairie Island Indian Community did not receive a federally-designated reservation until the late 1800s, when the Secretary of the Interior purchased approximately 120 acres of land for the remaining Dakota in Minnesota. |
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| Prairie Island Indian Reservation (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Prairie Island Reservation (C,V,English,U)
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| Prairie Island Indian Community (C,V,O,English,U)
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| Prairie Island Community (C,V,English,U)
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Dakota (county) (P) |
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| Indian reservation (Native American reservation) (preferred, C) |
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| inhabited place (C) |
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