Nicollet's 1843 map records many Dakota and Ojibwe place names from his travels in 1836–39, including on the Minnesota River near Traverse des Sioux, where the 1851 treaty was signed. The site is now a state historic site.
Which of the map's place names do you recognize, and which have been lost?
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