The explorer Jonathan Carver documented the historic Wakan tipi in the bluff below the burial mounds in 1767.
Paul was called Sāēnepān-Menīkān, which means "ribbon, silk or satin village", suggesting its role in trade throughout the region after the introduction of European goods. After the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, U.S Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike negotiated approximately of land from the indigenous Dakota in 1805 to establish a fort.
Paul was called Sāēnepān-Menīkān, which means "ribbon, silk or satin village", suggesting its role in trade throughout the region after the introduction of European goods. After the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, U.S Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike negotiated approximately of land from the indigenous Dakota in 1805 to establish a fort.
In 1819 Fort Snelling was built at the Minnesota and Mississippi confluence.
From the early 17th century to 1837, the Mdewakanton Dakota, a tribe of the Sioux, lived near the mounds after being displaced from their ancestral grounds by Mille Lacs Lake from advancing Ojibwe.
The 1837 Treaty with the Sioux ceded all tribal lands east of the Mississippi to the U.S.
Paul was constructed in 1838 at the entrance to Fountain Cave overlooking the Mississippi.
That lasted until the Catholic missionary Lucien Galtier arrived in 1840.
Paul as its capital near existing Dakota Sioux settlements in November 1849.
Between 1849 and 1887 the boundaries were expanded 14 times to their present extent.
It remained a town until 1854.
Between 1849 and 1887 the boundaries were expanded 14 times to their present extent.
As of 2019, its estimated population was 308,096, making it the 63rd-largest city in the United States and the 11th-most populous in the Midwest.
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