The push to make Minnesota an all-Indian state
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Seth Eastman painted this scene of an Indian medicine dance near Fort Snelling in 1847.
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Minnesota officially became a state in 1858. But 16 years before that, there was another proposal for statehood. And it would have created a much different Minnesota.
Host Mary Lucia and reporter Nikki Tundel discuss the little-known Doty Treaty, which called for an all-Indian state in southern Minnesota.
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