Editing Dawson, Minnesota (section)

==History==
The land Dawson sits on was originally home to the Wahpekute, Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, and Yanktonai people, three bands of the [[Dakota people|Dakota]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Welcome |url=https://native-land.ca/ |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=Native-Land.ca |language=en}}</ref> Land was ceded to the US government by the [[Treaty of Traverse des Sioux]] in 1851.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cession 289 |url=https://native-land.ca/maps/treaties/cession-289/ |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=Native-Land.ca |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Cession 289 |url=https://digitreaties.org/treaties/cession/289/ |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=digitreaties.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Willand |first=Jon |url=http://archive.org/details/lacquiparledakot0000will_g7x1 |title=Lac Qui Parle and the Dakota Mission |date=1964 |publisher=Lac Qui Parle County Historical Society |others=Internet Archive}}</ref>  The treaties were signed on July 23 and August 6 in [[Traverse des Sioux]] and [[Mendota, Minnesota|Mendota]] respectively.  The land was ceded in exchange for $3,750,000, about 12 cents per acre.  Little of the payment was actually received by the Dakota.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1851: Dakota |url=http://treatiesmatter.org/treaties/land/1851-Dakota |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=treatiesmatter.org}}</ref>

Dawson was [[plat]]ted in 1884.<ref name="Upham 289">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog | title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance | publisher=Minnesota Historical Society | author=Warren Upham | year=1920 | page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n308 289]}}</ref> The city was named for [[William Dawson (mayor)|William Dawson]], a former mayor of [[St. Paul, Minnesota|St. Paul]], and one of three partners in the Dawson Townsite Company.<ref>History, The First 100 Years, 1884–1984, p.3.</ref> A post office has been in operation at Dawson since 1884.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MN&county=Lac+qui+Parle |title=Lac qui Parle County |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |access-date=July 17, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721063756/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MN&county=Lac+qui+Parle |archive-date=July 21, 2015 }}</ref> The city was incorporated in 1885.<ref name="Upham 289" />