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Create a timeline exhibit incomoratina the information in the following table. <br />Tradition/Subject <br />Approximate <br />Event <br />Vegetation/loc <br />Lifestyle/Significance/Result <br />Period <br />ation <br />Paleo-Indian <br />9,000-11,000 <br />Retreat of glacier, <br />Spruce <br />Migratory hunting of big <br />BP <br />cool and wet <br />parkland, <br />game that followed glacial <br />pine forest <br />retreat, bison and possibly <br />megamammals, like <br />mammoths; maybe fruits <br />and nuts <br />Archaic <br />8,000 BP <br />Warmer and drier <br />Dry prairie <br />More sedentary, hunting <br />climate <br />and foraging; hunted <br />resident bison of the <br />sand lain <br />Woodland <br />2,500 BP <br />Cooler <br />Mixed <br />Seasonal camps; heavily <br />prairie, <br />dependent on wild rice, <br />woodland, <br />some farming of squash, <br />forest <br />corn, beans; deer hunting <br />Dakota <br />1600s <br />First arrival of <br />Same as <br />Similar to Woodland, <br />European <br />Woodland <br />explorers <br />Ojibwe <br />1680s <br />Ojibwe move west <br />Sherburne County <br />from Lake superior <br />becomes a contested area <br />and push Dakota <br />between Dakota and <br />away from Lake <br />Ojibwe until 1850s <br />Mille Lacs <br />Buffer Zone <br />1680s-1850s <br />Becomes a buffer <br />Mixed <br />Sandplain has abundant <br />zone between <br />prairie, <br />deer, bison, elk due to <br />Dakota and <br />woodland, <br />location on prairie/forest <br />Ojibwe <br />forest <br />border <br />Partition <br />1825 <br />Treaty negotiated <br />Indicate <br />Unsuccessful attempt to <br />Between <br />by Agent <br />dividing line <br />divide warring tribes. <br />Ojibwe and <br />Taliaferro. <br />on a map. <br />Dakota <br />1837 Treaty <br />1837 <br />After being <br />Indicate <br />In 1850, there are 20 <br />map <br />surveyed, the first <br />boundaries <br />farms in Benton County, <br />land in Minnesota <br />on a map. <br />which included Sherburne <br />is opened to <br />County. Next to <br />settlement in 1848. <br />Washington County's 48, <br />This area includes <br />this is the second highest <br />all of present <br />number of farms in <br />Sherburne County. <br />Minnesota TerritoEy. <br />Wovcha, 14-20; William Watts Folwell, A History of Minnesota, I, 146 (1825 boundary); <br />160-161, 1837 Treaty; William Warren, History of the Ojibway People, 155-162; Merrill E. <br />Jarchow, The Earth Brought Forth: A History of Minnesota Agriculture to 1885, (St. Paul: <br />MHS, 1949) 4. <br />Sherburne County Historical Society Heritage Center Interpretive Plan, April 21, 2005, page 31 <br />