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Without in the least wishing to deny credit or recognition
to other racial elements which were represented in this
section and which contributed their efforts, as a society
we are particularly interested in the major part taken by
Swedish and Norwegian immigrants in the building of
this part of Minnesota. To furnish a brief outline of
the very first settlements in this region and what befell
them in the onslaughts of the savages is the purpose of
this article.
In the sense in which we wish to use it, the Kandiyohi
region includes all that section of Minnesota which is
covered by the headwaters of the Crow River with its
three main branches, also of Hawk Creek and Chippewa
River, which all rise in the chain of lakes that extend
from the southwestern part of Meeker County
northward through the present Kandiyohi County and into
parts of Swift, Pope, and Stearns counties. For a distance
of forty miles the landscape is dotted with hundreds of
lakes which are fed by springs and in the springtime and
in rainy seasons by numberless small creeks and
brooklets. In the shallow and clear waters of these streams
it was an easy matter to spear the fish which crowded
up during the spawning season. The Dahkotah Indians
came hither to get their supplies of buffalo, suckers, and
other similar species of fish, and that is what the term,
“Kandiyohi” signified to them. It is a country where
undulating prairies, beautiful lakes, fine groves of
timber, and the best of soil combined to furnish
conditions ideal for the pioneer homesteader.
Immediately after the Indian treaties of 1851, when
the Santee tribes sold their rights to their domain in
exchange for money and annuities (most of which they
never received and little realizing what they were doing),
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