Editing History of Minnesota (section)

=== European colonization ===
When Europeans first started exploring Minnesota, the region was inhabited primarily by tribes of [[Sioux|Dakota]], with the [[Ojibwa]] (sometimes called Chippewa,{{sfn|Risjord|2005|p=20}} or Anishinaabe{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}) beginning to migrate westward into the state around 1700. (Other sources suggest the Ojibwe reached Minnesota by 1620 or earlier.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}) {{citation needed span|There were also the [[Chiwere language|Chiwere]] [[Iowa people|Ioway]] in the southwest,{{citation needed|date=March 2022}} and possibly the [[Menominee]] in some parts of the southeast as well as other tribes which could have been either Algonquian or Chiwere to the northeast, alongside Lake Superior (possibilities include the [[Meskwaki|Fauk]], [[Sauk people|Sauk]], and [[Missouria]]).|date=March 2022}} The economy of these tribes was chiefly based on [[hunter-gatherer]] activities.{{failed verification|date=March 2022}}{{Sfn|Risjord|2005|pp=30–31}} There was also a small group of [[Ho-Chunk]] (Winnebago) Native Americans near [[Long Prairie, Minnesota|Long Prairie]], who later moved to a reservation in [[Blue Earth County, Minnesota|Blue Earth County]] in 1855.{{sfn|Lass|1998|p=113}}

At some early point, the Missouria moved south into what is now Missouri, the Menominee ceded much of their westernmost lands and withdrew closer to the region of Green Bay, Wisconsin,{{sfn|Boatman|1998|pp= 10–11, 38, 83–85}} and the A'ani were pushed north and west by the Dakota and split into the Gros Ventre and the [[Arapaho]].{{sfn|Fowler|1987|p=45}} Later tribes who would inhabit the region include the [[Assiniboine]], who split from the Dakota and returned to Minnesota, but later also moved west as American settlers came to populate the region.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Parks |first=Douglas R. |first2=Raymond J. |last2=Demallie|title=Sioux, Assiniboine, and Stoney dialects: a classification |journal= Anthropological Linguistics |volume=34 |issue= 1 |date=1992 |pages=233–55}}</ref>

The word Minnesota comes from the Dakota phrase ''Mni Sóta Makoce'', which is depicted on the [[Seal of Minnesota|state seal]].<ref name=SERCreport> {{cite web |title=Selection for the New Official Flag and Great Seal for the State of Minnesota |author=Minnesota State Emblems Redesign Commission |url=https://serc.mnhs.org/hubfs/SERC%20Report%20FINAL%20v01242024%20WOMR.pdf?hsLang=en |date=2024-01-01 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society}}</ref>