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<text id=93AT0460>
<title>
Minnesota--History
</title>
<history>
Compact ALMANAC--United States Directory
Minnesota
</history>
<article>
<source>Compact</source>
<hdr>
History
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<body>
<p> Minnesota's roots reach back centuries to the time of the
last ice age when humans followed herds of large game to the
area as the glaciers melted. Rock carvings of people, animals
and weapons at Jeffers Petroglyphs in the south of the state
date back almost 5,000 years.
</p>
<p> Long before the first Europeans arrived, Indians from as far
away as 1,000 miles came to sacred quarries to carve soft, red
soapstone into ceremonial pipes. Settling into the area were
the Dakota (Sioux) and later, Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indians. The
two tribes fought frequently over land and eventually the
victorious Ojibwe lived in the forests of the north, while the
Dakota stayed on the prairie to the south.
</p>
<p> The French were the first white explorers to reach
Minnesota, in 1654. Known as voyagers, these hardy men
established a fur trade by trapping muskrats and beavers in the
lakes and streams of the north. The fur trade was carried on by
the British, who took control of Minnesota in 1763, and later
by Yankee traders.
</p>
<p> In 1819, soldiers build Minnesota's first U.S. military
post, Fort Snelling. In 1858, nine years after being organized
as a territory, Minnesota was declared the thirty-second state
to join the union.
</p>
<p>Source: State of Minnesota.
</p>
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