Chief Sleepy Eye Monument
The monument is a graceful
shaft of Ortonville granite, 43 feet high on a base 10 1/2 by 10 1/2 feet. The construction of this memorial has been
let to the Sullivan
Monument Company, of Minneapolis, and the cost will be $2,500.00. Just above the base of the
shaft will be an inscription reading as follows: "Ish-tak-ha-ba (Sleepy Eye) Always a friend of
the whites.”
This monument stands in a
little park at the east end of the depot grounds and will always remain a
reminder of a famous Indian whose good deeds will be familiar to the generations who are to come. The bones
of the chief will be entombed in the foundation of the
monument. Dedicated October 17th, 1902.
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