1846- 48 Visions of the Mississippi River Vally from painter Henry Lewis

 Haha Wakpa (Dakhota) image painted by Henry Lewis after his 1946-48 journeys to sketch the Mississippi River Valley.

 The Bdote, the confluence of the HahaWakpa (Mississippi River) coming out of the gorge-valley and the Mnisota Wakpa, (Minnesota River) that gives the state our name)  - St Peter's to the white Christian Settlers of the time coming from the right.  Notice the prairie on winta tanka, the big island.

The wide valley of the Mnisota Wakpa in the 1840's.....

From The Valley of the Mississippi Illustrated, Henry Lewis, c 1967 Minnesota Historical Society, Originally published in German 1854, Das Illustrirte Mississippithal by Arnz and Company Duesseldorf