 During most of this era Native Americans outnumbered European / U.S. settlers in what is now Minnesota . Significant Dakota Sioux settlements in the Minnesota area included <unk> , located in what is now Saint Paul before being moved by the 1837 treaty . Significant Ojibwe settlements included <unk> <unk> ( <unk> <unk> ) and <unk> ( Fond du Lac ) , as well as the community that had developed around the Grand Portage commerce . 
