Ko te rohe i te rawhiti o te awa o Mississippi i riro i te United States i te mutunga o te American Revolutionary War, i te wa i hainatia ai te Tuarua o te Tiriti o Paris. I hokona te whenua ki te hauauru o te awa o Mississippi me te hoko o Louisiana, ahakoa ko tetahi waahanga o te awa o Red River Valley i tautohetia tae noa ki te Tiriti o 1818. I te mutunga o nga tau 1700, kua whakapumautia e te North West Company te pou o Fort Charlotte i te pito o Lake Superior o te Grand Portage, tae noa ki te neke 50 maero ki te raki-rawhiti ki Fort William i te 1803. I te tau 1805, i whiriwhiria e Zebulon Pike me nga Amerikana Maori ki te hoko whenua i te huihuinga o Minnesota me Mississippi. Ko te hanganga o Fort Snelling i waenga i te 1819 me te 1825.
Ko te 1839