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Isanti County is created and named for an eastern group of Dakota: the Isaŋyathi (dwellers at the knife camp; literally, "they live on knives"). The Isaŋyathi are the Mdewakanton, Sisseton, Wahpeton, and Wahkpekute bands.
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