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Sleepy Eye Lake was named for Chief Sleepy Eye. [3] Between 1931 and 1932, The lake dried out. The lake has filled and is used for recreation and fishing. [4] [5] In 2020 the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency decided to remove Sleepy Eye Lake from their impaired water list. The lake has improved nutrient levels.
Ishtakhaba (Dakota: Ištáȟba), also known as Chief Sleepy Eyes, was a Native American chief of the Sisseton Dakota tribe. He became chief sometime between 1822 and 1825, receiving a commission from the Bureau of Indian Affairs as chief in 1824, [ 1 ] and remained chief until his death in 1860.
Sleepy Eye is a small city in rural Brown County, Minnesota, United States. The city is named after a famed local Dakota chief from the 1800s. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The population was 3,599 at the 2010 census .
Slaughter Slough is a wetland in southwestern Minnesota, named for being the site of the Lake Shetek Massacre during the Dakota War of 1862. It is located in Murray County east of Lake Shetek . On August 20, 1862, about 25-30 Sisseton warriors and women led by Chief Lean Bear of the Sleepy-Eye band attacked the Euro-American settlers living ...
Sleepy Eye Lake is a lake in Le Sueur County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. [1] Sleepy Eye Lake was named for Chief Sleepy Eye. [2] See also
SLEEPY EYE, Minn. — An industrial mishap in a chemical plant in this small rural community left a man with life-threatening burns after 1,000 gallons of high-pressure 200-degree water scalded him.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 52.5 square miles (136 km 2), of which 52.3 square miles (135 km 2) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km 2) (0.29%) is water. The city of Sleepy Eye is entirely within the township geographically but is a separate entity.
Anton Joseph "Tony" or "A. J." Eckstein (May 29, 1923 - April 13, 2009) was a Minnesota politician and a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from southwestern Minnesota. First elected in 1970, Eckstein was re-elected in 1972, 1974 and 1976.