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This Day in Minnesota History

January 27, 1902

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The Mille Lacs Ojibwe are offered $40,000 to move to the White Earth Reservation so that their land can be sold to developers. In August, seventy-four men (of 125 available) sign the agreement, and by 1914 1,152 individuals had moved to White Earth while 276 remained at Mille Lacs.

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