Pembina in a sentence

It is a picturesque spot, where the Pembina river cuts the international boundary line in its course to the southeast to join the Red River of the North in its course to Hudson's bay.

Near the close of 1849 he visited a brother in the Pembina region.

He returned to St. Joe, in 1852, accompanied by a young man named Benjamin Terry, of St. Paul, to open a mission among the Pembina Chippewas and half breeds under the auspices of the Baptist Missionary Society.

Thus ended in blood, the first effort to establish a Protestant mission in the Pembina country.

They removed to St. Joe, at the earnest request of Governor Alexander Ramsey, of Minnesota, and others familiar with their labors and the needs of the Pembina natives.

The hostile Sioux were infesting the Pembina region.

There is a settlement at Pembina, where the dividing line between British America and the United States crosses the Red River of the North.

Pembina is said to have about 600 inhabitants.

It is situated on the Pembina River.

West of Pembina, about thirty miles, is a settlement called St. Joseph, situated N. of a large mythological body of water called Miniwakan, or Devil's Lake; and is one of the points where Col. Smith's expedition was intending to stop.

This expedition to which I refer, started out from Fort Snelling in the summer, to explore the country on both sides of the Red River of the North as far as Pembina, and to report to the war department the best points for the establishment of a new military post.

It is expected that Col. Smith will return by the first of next month; and it is probable he will advise the erection of a post at Pembina.

So that the extent of its navigation within the territory alone (between Pembina and the mouth of Sioux Wood River) is 417 miles.

The settlement is seventy miles north of Pembina, and lies on both sides of the river.

I understand it will be called Dacotah, though I at first thought it would be called Pembina.

In the northerly part the Mouse and Pembina Rivers are among its largest streams; in the middle flows the large and finely wooded Shayenne, "whose valley possesses a fertile soil and offers many inducements to its settlement;" while towards the south it would have the Jacques, the Big Sioux, the Vermillion, and the head waters of the St. Peter's.

They inhabit a large district of country which may be comprised within the following limits:- From Prairie du Chien, on the Mississippi, by a curved line extending east of north and made to include all the eastern tributaries of the Mississippi, to the first branch of Chippewa River; the head waters of that stream being claimed by the Chippewa Indians; thence by a line running west of north to the head of Spirit Lake; thence by a westerly line to the Riveree de Corbeau; thence up that river to its head, near Otter Tail Lake; thence by a westerly line to Red River, and down that river to Pembina; thence by a south-westerly line to the east bank of the Missouri near the Mandan villages; thence down the Missouri to a point probably not far from Soldier's River; thence by a line running east of north to Prairie du Chien.

Zumbro Lucy Cobb. PEMBINA COUNTY.

The next day our guide led us to the Pembina River which comes from the southward where we found traces of Indians who appeared to have quitted this station the day before; we had therefore the benefit of a good track which our dogs much required as they were greatly fatigued, having dragged their loads through very deep snow for the last two days.

At eight P.M. we encamped in the Methye River at the confluence of the river Pembina.