A Minnesota Century: The Battle of Sugar Point

To close out the millennium, Minnesota Public Radio's All Things Considered presents a look back at Minnesota life in 1900 via a 12-part series, entitled “A Minnesota Century.” In this segment, a look back at the Battle of Sugar Point…a fight between the U.S. Government and Chippewa Tribe over timber.

Americans often remember the battle of Wounded Knee in South Dakota as the last armed conflict between the U.S. Army and American Indians. But a forgotten battle 8 years later on the Leech Lake Indian reservation in Minnesota actually holds that distinction.

This is the first of twelve reports.

Click links below for other reports in series:

part 2: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/02/23/a-minnesota-century-predictions

part 3: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/03/29/a-minnesota-century-lincoln-fey

part 4: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/04/26/a-minnesota-century-the-road-to-bagley

part 5: https://cms.publicradio.org/archive-portal/stories/1999/05/31/a-minnesota-century-mining-the-north

part 6: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/06/21/a-minnesota-century-eva-mcdonald

part 7: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/07/26/a-minnesota-century-the-mayo-brothers

part 8: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/08/30/a-minnesota-century-rhoda-emery

part 9: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/09/27/a-minnesota-century-maud-hart-lovelace

part 10: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/10/28/a-minnesota-century-the-story-of-cole-younger

part 11: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/11/29/a-minnesota-century-fredrick-lamar-mcghee-an-early-leader