Editing Long Prairie, Minnesota (section)

==History==
[[File:Watab-LongPrairieReservation1843Nicollet.gif|thumbnail|The Long Prairie Winnebago/Ho-Chunk Reservation of 1845]]
Long Prairie's history dates back to the time when the land was inhabited first by the [[Sioux#Eastern Dakota|Sioux/Dakota]] and then [[Anishinaabe]]/ [[Ojibwe]] Native American tribes. In an 1846 treaty, the [[U.S. government]] gave a vast area in what is now central Minnesota to the [[Ho-Chunk|Winnebago Indians]] (Ho-Chunk), known as the Long Prairie Reservation. A site at Long Prairie was chosen as headquarters for the tribe.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ho-chunknation.com/?PageId=820 |title=Ho-Chunk timeline |access-date=2012-08-28 |publisher=Ho-Chunk Nation, Wisconsin |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111162612/http://ho-chunknation.com/?PageId=820 |archive-date=November 11, 2013 }}</ref> In 1848, the tribe was resettled from the Neutral Ground in northeast Iowa to the Long Prairie Reservation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ho-Chunk and Long Prairie, 1846–1855 {{!}} MNopedia |url=https://www.mnopedia.org/event/ho-chunk-and-long-prairie-1846-1855 |website=www.mnopedia.org |access-date=13 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Treaty with The Winnebago - 1846 |url=https://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Treaties/TreatyWithTheWinnebago1846.html |website=www.firstpeople.us |access-date=13 June 2020}}</ref> The journey North was a difficult and long trip, but once at the Long Prairie Reservation, the tribe built a functioning village with homes, a school, and a church.<ref>{{cite web | title=Indian and White in Happy Valley: Long Prairie. |last=Sandy | first=John H. | url=https://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/12628 | access-date = 2023-10-29 }}</ref> A subsequent treaty in 1855 again resettled the tribe in southern Minnesota.<ref>{{cite web |title=Treaty with The Winnebago - 1855 |url=https://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Treaties/TreatyWithTheWinnebago1855.html |website=www.firstpeople.us |access-date=13 June 2020}}</ref>

Long Prairie was [[plat]]ted in 1867, and named after the [[Long Prairie River]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Upham|first=Warren|title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance|url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog|year=1920|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n562 545]}}</ref> The river was originally given its name by the Ojibwe/Anishinaabe people.<ref>{{cite web | title=Origin and Significance of the Long Prairie Place Name in Minnesota.  |last=Sandy | first=John H. | url=https://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/12943 | access-date=2023-12-11 }}</ref> There is a [[United States Geological Survey]] stream flow monitoring gauge in the river in Long Prairie.<ref>{{Cite web |title=USGS WaterWatch -- Streamflow conditions |url=https://waterwatch.usgs.gov/?m=real&r=mn&w=map |access-date=2023-10-01 |website=waterwatch.usgs.gov}}</ref>

=== Marshal George Williams ===
[[File:Marshall George H Williams Memorial, Long Prairie, Minnesota.jpg|thumb|Memorial to Long Prairie Village Marshal George H. William who was shot while duty on July 29, 1922]]In July 1922 Long Prairie Village Marshal George Williams was shot and killed by men fleeing a botched bank robbery in [[Hewitt, Minnesota|Hewitt]]. The killing took place at a late night road block near the current municipal liquor store.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP) |url=https://www.odmp.org/ |access-date=2023-11-11 |website=www.odmp.org}}</ref>

The text on William's memorial reads as follows: "This monument honors George H. Williams who was village Marshal of Long Prairie. He was awakened by a ringing telephone in the early hours of July 29, 1922. The call was a summons from Todd County Deputy Sheriff Seely Adams. An attempt had been made to rob the Hewitt bank and a roadblock was needed at the bridge over the [[Long Prairie River]]. George kissed his wife Kathryn, goodbye. Minutes later, he was shot dead on the railroad tracks near the bridge, just north of this monument.

George Williams was a leader in the community. In addition to being village marshal he served as fire chief and was active in a number of community service organizations.