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On the recordApril 10, 1892
All persons save said Indians are forbidden to enter upon and occupy the same or any part thereof.
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Benjamin Harrison
Republican · Indiana

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Proclamation 326—Opening to Settlement Lands Acquired from the Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians

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