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== History ==

Originally [[Ojibwe]] territory, Brainerd was first seen by white men on Christmas Day in 1805, when [[Zebulon Pike]] stopped there while searching for the [[Source (river or stream)|headwaters]] of the [[Mississippi River]]. [[Crow Wing Village, Minnesota|Crow Wing Village]], a fur and logging community near [[Fort Ripley]], brought settlers to the area in the mid-1800s.

In these early years the relationship between the settlers and the Indians was complicated. The most famous example of this tenuous relationship was the so-called "Blueberry War" of 1872. Two "[[half-breed]]" Objiwe were hung for allegedly murdering a missing girl, and when a group of Indians approached the town, troops from nearby Fort Ripley were called in to prevent a potential reprisal. As it turns out, however, the Ojibwe only wanted to sell [[blueberry|blueberries]] and the settlers narrowly avoided a bloody misunderstanding.