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Your mention caught me by surprise as I have ceased editing that article for what you have run into. I am a member of the Military History Project which makes the War a topic for me. A review of the various sources shows very few Military Historians have written on the war. It has been left to those with no background in the subject. Then there are contributors that have no understanding of formatting military history and lack a grasp of the content. A member of the Minnesota History Project asked me to review the War article. My opinion was and remains it needs a complete rewrite. I did that and had it reverted immediately for being "too much". If you go to my history you can find that in my New Sandbox User:Mcb133aco/New_sandbox (there is a notable difference in number of refs). While your at it check my sandbox2.User:Mcb133aco/sandbox2 you will find a staggering amount of Chippewa/Ojibwa history that is relevant. Contrary to what is posted, it is not original research by me. It all was published in newspapers and posted to the internet. Some of it you will have read on the War talk page. As to the author you have a question about. They very clearly did not have a neutral POV or a military background. With the pov issue I would not cite them unless I had to. You are welcome to post questions to my talk page. Thank you again for the mention.Mcb133aco (talk)mcb133acoMcb133aco (talk) Mcb133aco (talk) 06:47, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
I see you have been contributing to this article as well. Since you were so good as to mention me I will give some missing history. There is no record that Ramsey ever visited the frontier before drawing up the treaty boundaries. He used Nicollet's 1840s map of the Upper Mississippi basin while sitting in his St. Paul office. You can Google excellent images of this map. Nicollet identified where each tribe was. However, if you look the map is unclear for tribal borders south of the Minnesota river and Ramsey guessed wrong. The Big Sioux was not the eastern border of Yankton land nor the western limits of the Sisseton. The Yankton claimed as far east as the Jeffers Petroglyphs which easily included the Pipestone Quarry. The Big Sioux could easily be forded and was not a geographic obstruction for the Yankton. A Google will produce a map in Germany that clearly indicates this information. Chief Waanata 1 of the Yanktonai had his main village at Lake Traverse. You can find multiple references where he claims from Granite Falls to the Missouri river. There is no mention of the Yanktonai donating their land to the Sisseton. That transfer came courtesy of Ramsey's ignorance of tribal boundaries and the ambiguity of Nicollet's map which resulted in The Traverse des Sioux Treaty. The Yankton made their claims known and the Government realized there were merits to their claims. So much so, that the Government felt it did not free and clear title to the land for the Statehood of Minnesota. The Yankton treaty of 1858 was drafted with those issues Opening paragraph #1. Read it for yourself you don't require an academic to do it for you. [1] It is pure legalese to cover any and all Yankton claims. One month after the Yankton signed Minnesota gained Statehood. If you dig a little you will find that the Yanktonai were unhappy with the Yankton for selling some of their land too.[1] The Yanktonai land claim was roughly 11 million acres before their kinfolk started selling it for them.Mcb133aco (talk) 03:52, 27 January 2024 (UTC)mcb133acoMcb133aco (talk) 03:52, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
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1) In general, the wikipedia Visual Editor messes up infoboxes, and shouldn't be used to edit them until after the Visual Editor is fixed. I have reported this issue. Until it is fixed, you should manually edit the text of the article.
2) Thanks for talking photos of communities. Please keep in mind that if the conditions aren't reasonable for a photograph, then you probabyly shouldn't take a photo or wait until another day when you can take a more reasonable photo. Per this photo, the sun should be either behind you or above you, but not in front of you. If you get back to Sawyer, please take a better photo to replace this photo.
Thanks in advance.
• Sbmeirow • Talk • 01:35, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
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