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Map showing the boundaries of the 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux land cession area (Royce Area 289)

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The 1851 Traverse des Sioux Treaty ceded approximately 35 million acres of land in Minnesota and Iowa to the federal government. The treaty was signed on Pilot Knob and this plaque commemorates the signing.