Claim: Minnesota was inhabited by native peoples of Canada and the northern United States.
Evidence: Until European settlement , Minnesota was inhabited by the Dakota and Ojibwe/Anishinaabe.
Anishinaabe -LRB- or Anishinabe , plural : Anishinaabeg -RRB- is the autonym for a group of culturally related indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States that include the Odawa , Ojibwe , Potawatomi , Oji-Cree , Mississaugas , and Algonquin peoples.
They traditionally have lived in the Northeast Woodlands and Subarctic.