The treaties allowed a young United States of America to grow as farming, lumber, and other industries flourished on the obtained lands. Dozens of them were signed in the 1800s in Minnesota.

RED LAKE -- In the lobby of Washington, D.C.'s, National Museum of the American Indian sits a birchbark canoe created by the Fond du Lac and Red Cliff bands of Lake Superior Chippewa. Bynews ...

By the early 1860s, the tribe was living in poverty on a strip of land along the Minnesota River. Treaties with the U.S. government promised them payments that never materialized.