Editing Mendota, Minnesota (section)

==History==
The town was one of the first permanent European-American settlements in the state of Minnesota, being founded around the same time as [[Fort Snelling]].  It is also the location of the Sibley Historic Site with two of the earliest known stone buildings in the State of Minnesota, the [[Henry Hastings Sibley]] house, the [[Jean-Baptiste Faribault|Faribault]] house, and other buildings associated with the [[American Fur Company]], all dating from the 1830s,<ref>{{cite web| title = Mendota - Walking in the Footsteps of History| url = http://www.mendotamn.org/| access-date = 2008-01-16| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080124011448/http://www.mendotamn.org/| archive-date = 2008-01-24}}</ref> and the [[Hypolite Dupuis|Dupuis House]], the first red brick house in Mendota, built in 1854 by [[Hypolite Dupuis]] for his wife, Angelique (Renville) Dupuis and his large, growing Dakota mixed-blood family. Hypolite Dupuis arrived in Mendota sometime between 1840, and 1842 and began clerking for Sibley.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hypolite Dupuis |url=https://www.mnhs.org/sibley/learn/hypolite-dupuis |website=Sibley Historic Site |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |access-date=18 September 2023}}</ref> The main route through the small city is [[Minnesota State Highway 13|State Highway 13]], also known as ''Sibley Memorial Highway''.  Other roads in the city are mainly small unimproved roads.

The city of Mendota is home to the [[Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal Community]], they are a non-federally recognized Indian community in Minnesota. They have sought federal recognition since 1996. They are a registered [[501(c)(3) organization|501(c)(3)]]. Their present community came into existence after the [[United States Congress]] passed appropriation acts for the "Sioux in Minnesota" in the 1880s and 1890s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mendotadakota.com/mn/|title = Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal Community}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/50th-congress/session-1/c50s1ch503.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170130222548/http://loc.gov/law//help/statutes-at-large/50th-congress/session-1/c50s1ch503.pdf |archive-date=2017-01-30 |url-status=live|title = About this Collection &#124; United States Statutes at Large &#124; Digital Collections &#124; Library of Congress|website = [[Library of Congress]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/50th-congress/session-2/c50s2ch412.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170130224755/http://loc.gov/law//help/statutes-at-large/50th-congress/session-2/c50s2ch412.pdf |archive-date=2017-01-30 |url-status=live|title = About this Collection &#124; United States Statutes at Large &#124; Digital Collections &#124; Library of Congress|website = [[Library of Congress]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/51st-congress/session-1/c51s1ch807.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207222026/http://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/51st-congress/session-1/c51s1ch807.pdf |archive-date=2017-02-07 |url-status=live|title = About this Collection &#124; United States Statutes at Large &#124; Digital Collections &#124; Library of Congress|website = [[Library of Congress]]}}</ref>