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I am making this draft as a result of this submission at the Requested Articles page.

The submission itself states:
"seems to be a battle which took place at cut foot Sioux near Deer River, Minnesota. One of the last battles before the Ojibway successfully drove out the Dakota. Supposedly named after a Dakota Sioux who had a cut foot."

After looking into it some references at the existing articles for the Lake and Trail that exist in its namesake, this seems to track.

I will be beginning by finding some sources to add into the article. jan Manisijun (Magnesium) (talk) (contribs) 05:07, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

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  • Source: Warren, William W. (2009). History of the Ojibway People (2nd ed.). Minnesota Historical Society. pp. 127–128. ISBN 978-0873516433.
  • Source: Warren, William W. (2009). History of the Ojibway People (2nd ed.). Minnesota Historical Society. pp. 127–128. ISBN 978-0873516433.
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Moved to mainspace by JanManisijun (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

jan Manisijun (Magnesium) (talk) (contribs) 22:26, 17 May 2026 (UTC).

  • Hi JanManisijun, the article is new enough and long enough. You did not need to provide QPQ. There are two textual issues.
    • Three uncited passages: As a result of increased demand for resources from this alliance, the Ojibwe began to expand westward into the Great Lakes region, and eventually northern modern-day Minnesota. and beginning their progressed displacement from the Mississippi River., The Ojibwe continued to assume control over the Upper Mississippi and present-day northern Minnesota, and had full access to the now routed Dakota villages. At DYK, articles need to have a citation to cover all claims (beyond the lead section).
    • The trail is not mentioned in the body of the article with a citation, which is necessary because it is the hook fact. The lake, however, is.
    • The hook source is an offline book. Is it possible to provide the passage in the source that verifies the hook? (I have changed ALT1 to ALT0a as it is the same fact reworded; I prefer this wording).
This looks nearly ready, but there is work to be done. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 07:20, 11 June 2026 (UTC)
  • @JanManisijun: Please respond to the above. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:13, 24 June 2026 (UTC)
  • I apologize for my absence!
    • I added sources for those sentences. Let me know if they aren't adequate enough
    • I mentioned the trail within the same sentence that I mentioned the lake
    • Below is the exact passage that I was citing from that book. If you need actual access to the book I can try to find it again online for you!

The second division, proceeding in their war canoes against the Sandy Lake village, met with precisely the same fate. They were paddling down the smooth current of the Mississippi, when one morning they met a canoe containing the advance scouts of a large Ojibway war party, who were on their route to attack their village at Leech Lake; these scouts were immediately attacked, and pursued by the Dakotas into a small lake, where the main body of the Ojibways coming up, both parties landed and fought for half a day on the shores of the lake. This battle is noted from the fact that a Dakota was killed here whose feet were both previously cut half off either by frost or some accident, and the lake where the fight took place is known to this day as “Keesh-ke-sida-boin Sah-ga-e-gun” “Lake of the cut-foot Dakota.” The belligerent parties both retreated to their respective villages from this point, their bloody propensities being for the time fully cooled down.