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The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 for having state-level significance under the themes of archaeology, architecture, education, and social history. [4] Considered sacred for being a place where their ancestors died of starvation, the Upper Sioux Community has been working to regain the land since the 1860s.
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The Upper Sioux Indian Reservation is located in Minnesota Falls Township along the Minnesota River in eastern Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, five miles (8.0 km) south of Granite Falls. It was created in 1938 when 746 acres (3.02 km 2 ) of land were returned to the tribe by the federal government, under the Indian Reorganization Act ...
Minnesota's Upper Sioux Agency State Park will permanently close to the public on Feb. 16, as the state gets ready to transfer the land to the nearby tribal community. The Minnesota Department of ...
The closure was necessary due to unstable ground deep underneath the roadbed, causing large cracks to appear in the road surface and rendering it impassable for traffic. A detour was put into place that followed State Highway 274 and County Road 2 and between Granite Falls and Echo. MnDOT permanently rerouted MN 67 along this detour and ...
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The relationship between the mission and the Dakota people worsened, and in 1854 the missionaries abandoned the site and relocated to the Upper Sioux Agency. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The mission was reconstructed by the Works Progress Administration in 1942 and is now managed by the Chippewa County Historical Society in partnership with the Minnesota ...
The Upper Sioux Indian Reservation, related to the historical Yellow Medicine Agency that was here, is entirely within the county. It was established under the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux in 1851, by which the Dakota ceded much territory in the region to the United States.