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Neenába's Map : line on the Red Cedar Fork, 1831
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This map was drawn by a Chippewa leader and shows the boundary lines between the Chippewa and Dakota territories and a saw-mill built by settlers without permission from the Chippewa Indians. This map shows east to Neenába's village and Rice Lake on the Red Cedar River and west to Lake Pepin on the Mississippi River in northwestern Wisconsin. It is oriented with north to the right. The map includes portions of the St. Croix, Willow, Meadow, Vermillion, Red Cedar, Chippewa, and Clearwater Rivers.
1831
Neenaba (cartographer)
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