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22-562: The Sibley Historic Site is the site of Henry Hastings Sibley 's home, who was the regional manager of the American Fur Company and Minnesota 's first governor. It is one of the 26 historical sites that are operated by the Minnesota Historical Society . Located in what is now the city of Mendota , the site consists of four limestone buildings and a large lawn area. Three of the buildings are open for touring, including

44-524: A fur company cold store from 1843 and the 1840 home of fur trader and hotelier Jean-Baptiste Faribault . The Sibley House, considered the oldest private residence in Minnesota, was built between 1835 and 1836 by a team of over 100 white and Dakota laborers, directed by John Mueller. It was made of limestone blocks cut from a nearby quarry. Sibley lived here as a bachelor for eight years, until his marriage to Sarah Jane Steele. After his marriage, Sibley turned

66-654: A tea house. A verandah was built on the east side overlooking an old fashioned garden; and later a large, glass-enclosed porch was added to the west side. The Sibley Tea House became one of Minnesota's most popular tea houses and thousands of guests visited each season until it closed in the 1970s. The Dupuis House now houses the offices of the Sibley Historic Site and the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal Community . Henry Hastings Sibley Too Many Requests If you report this error to

88-537: Is known as Bdóte , which the Dakota people consider to be the place they were created. This is close to other important sites to the Dakota people, including Oheyawahi-Pilot Knob and Coldwater Spring . Before American colonists made contact with them, Dakota people had lost much of their northern lands in wars with the Ojibwe people, who themselves had been forced westward in conflicts with colonists and had therefore acquired

110-400: Is still fighting for the right to be acknowledged its sovereignty by the U.S. government. The Mendota community is descended from prominent Dakota chiefs, particularly Little Crow, and so is working to be seen as a federally recognized tribe, with the concomitant powers and rights, as it has lineage that connects it to not only Dakota families, but famous ones at that. The cultural practices of

132-589: The DAR turned the ownership of the Sibley Historic Site to State of Minnesota and the management to the Minnesota Historical Society . As of 2015, the historic is operated in partnership with the Dakota County Historical Society. Adjoining the Sibley estate is the house of Jean Baptiste Faribault , built in 1839. This Colonial house is built of local yellow sandstone with a red sandstone front. Faribault left

154-587: The Faribault house was seen as having sufficient historic value to receive government aid in its restoration. In 1934, the State Highway Department began the restoration of the Faribault House through a Public Works Administration project. In 1935, the partially restored home was turned over to the DAR, who completed the restoration. The house and grounds were opened to the public on May 5, 1937. On

176-575: The MMDTC, the community was a prominent body in the protest of the rerouting of Highway 55, whose proposed route threatened important Dakota sites such as Coldwater Springs . The Mendota community, along with the American Indian Movement and Earth First! , fought for the Minnesota Department of Transportation to adjust its plans to preserve these spaces. After years of protesting, in which

198-515: The Mendota Community look much the same as the broader Dakota people's, carried down from pre-colonial times. The Mendota Community have the distinction of "Keepers of the Eastern Gate," which is the concept that tribes at each cardinal direction defend the Dakota people as a whole. The MMDTC offers monthly tribal meetings, at which the community comes together to decide how they will operate and

220-477: The U.S., sequestering the Dakota people into smaller plots of land with each successive treaty, culminating in the conflict known as the U.S.-Dakota War . The U.S. Dakota war was incited when U.S. officials refused to provide promised food items and goods, leading to widespread starvation and death within the Dakota reservations, particularly along the Minnesota River. Dakota men therefore took up arms against

242-490: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.133 via cp1102 cp1102, Varnish XID 110188797 Upstream caches: cp1102 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 08:44:33 GMT Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal Community The Dakota people are the original inhabitants of the land that is now known as Minnesota , specifically centered around

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264-566: The advantage of guns and ammunition before the Dakota. The first official contact between the Dakota and the United States Government was the 1805 Pike's Treaty, in which the U.S. was able to establish a military fortress, Fort Snelling , and the land that became the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area . This meant the loss of the area around Bdóte, and so the heart of the Dakota land. Many treaties were later signed with

286-411: The ancestors of the Dakota. After the U.S.-Dakota War, these families assisted in trying to drive out the Dakota combatants along with other Minnesotans, and so were able to maintain residence near Minneapolis and St. Paul in the towns of Mendota and Lilydale . This allowed them to live near Mdote and Wita Tanka, and their descendants have retained this space through today. Shortly after the formation of

308-610: The business office into a parlor, and an addition was built for a kitchen, dining room, two more rooms on the second floor, and an office on the east side. It was in this office that plans were drawn up for the Minnesota Territory , and it became the temporary territorial headquarters in May 1840, when Governor Alexander Ramsey was a guest of Sibley. When General Sibley moved to 417 Woodward Street, St. Paul in 1862, he sold his home to St. Peter's Catholic Parish. The Catholic Sisters used

330-585: The floorboards and staircases for firewood, and the house fell into ruin. On April 19, 1910, the house was rescued from ruin by a joint effort from the St. Paul chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Mrs. Lucy Shepard McCourt, and Archbishop John Ireland of St. Peter's Parish. The house was restored by DAR chapters throughout the state, and was opened to the public on June 14, 1910. In May 1997

352-430: The home for a school and convent from 1867 to 1878, adding a belfry on the roof and remodeling the interior. For the next few decades, the house was leased to different parties, including the artist Burt Harwood, as a studio and art school during the summers of 1897 to 1899. The house was then used briefly as a storehouse, but was soon abandoned and became a lodging place for railroad transients. These new tenants tore up

374-426: The house after the death of his wife in 1847, and his grandson George Faribault operated a hotel in the building. River travelers, priests, teachers, explorers, and government representatives all made stays at the inn. The house was sold and rented to various private parties, and eventually fell into disrepair. By the 1880s, Mendota had ceased to be a center of activity and became instead a quiet village. Eventually,

396-596: The modern day Twin Cities , Mille Lacs Lake , and Minnesota River Valley. The name "Minnesota" comes from the Dakota "Mni Sota," which was used as the name for the Minnesota River and means "cloudy water," which was then used by settlers as the name for the entire state. The Minnesota River has a strong cultural significance for the Dakota people as the place where it joins the Mississippi River , in Saint Paul, Minnesota ,

418-399: The protesters faced violent police raids and winter conditions, and court proceedings, MNDOT consented to install a lining that would protect the water source of the spring, thereby allowing construction of the highway while protecting the natural habitat. The Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal Community has sought federal recognition since its formation in 1997. Initially denied, the community

440-566: The southeast corner of the historic site is the Dupuis House, built in 1854 for fur trader Hypolite Dupuis , who also served as private secretary to General Sibley for many years. This house is built of brick from Milwaukee, Wisconsin . In 1869 the house was sold to Tim Fee and remained in the Fee family until it was purchased by the Minnesota DAR in 1924. In 1928 the house was remodeled to serve as

462-564: The war, President Abraham Lincoln ordered the execution of 38 Dakota men in Mankato , the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Following this, the remainder of the Dakota in the Fort Snelling camp were ordered into exile outside of the state of Minnesota. The Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal community was officially formed in 1997 in Mendota, Minnesota, the "center of the universe" according to

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484-521: The white settlers around them for their promised food and security, and ultimately their freedom from the colonists. A main figure in this conflict was Taoyateduta (Little Crow) , a Dakota chief who greatly assisted in the Dakota resistance and whose descendants figure within the MMDTC. The Dakota were ultimately defeated by the white Minnesotans, and noncombatants were then placed in a concentration camp near Fort Snelling, on Wita Tanka. After trials were held against those Dakota people who participated in

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