Carver Claim
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The Carver Claim grew out of the assertion that at St. Paul on May 1, 1767, the Sioux nation granted to Jonathan Carver an extensive tract embracing approximately the northwestern one fourth of modern Wisconsin. The American Government had rejected the claim, but until the 1930s credulous individuals continued to press land titles based upon it.
Source: Dictionary of American History by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940
