According to tribal tradition, during the 17th century the Cheyenne had been driven by the Ho hé ( Assiniboine ) from the Great Lakes region to present-day Minnesota and North Dakota, where they established villages.

According to Minnesota Public Radio, this may be the beginning of a trend toward Keillor's eventual retirement.

According to traditional continuity, both cities are located in the fictional U. S. state of Calisota, a portmanteau of California and Minnesota.

According to co-creator Allan Burns, Minnesota was selected for the show's location after " one of the writers began talking about the strengths and weaknesses of the Vikings.

According to the official web site, Otter Tail County contains over 1000 lakes and two Minnesota state parks, Maplewood State Park and Glendalough State Park.

According to Dakota tradition, their ancestors pushed out the Iowa who were found settled at the mouth of the Minnesota River.

According to Melvin Gimmestad's Historical Backgrounds of Mound, Minnesota, " Mound derived its name from the Indian mounds once found within the present-day limits.

According to Minnesota Place Names, Vesta Township was settled in 1868 and organized May 20, 1880.

According to legend, Ross, Minnesota and a number of other surrounding communities are reportedly " hot spots " for sightings of the Native American mythical creature known as the Wendigo.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of and is the largest city in Minnesota by area and the 40th largest city, by area, in the United States.

According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources ( DNR ), Two Harbors is located in a region called the Laurentian Mixed Forest Province which contains broad areas of coniferous forest, mixed hardwood, and conifer bogs and swamps.

According to the Minnesota Management and Budget Department, general-fund expenditures from 2004 to 2011 increased an average of 3. 5 percent per two-year term, compared to an average of 21. 1 percent from 1960 to 2003 ( these numbers, however, are not inflation-adjusted ).

According to an article on the front page of the Moose Lake ( Minnesota ) Star on January 17, 1901: " Ex-governor John Lind after having freed himself from the duties of governor last Thursday walked down to the Dispatch office in St. Paul and administered to Editor Black a well-deserved licking.

According to Donohue, as the Pharyngula website was accessible via a link from the University of Minnesota website, it should be bound by the institution's code of conduct which requires faculty to be " respectful, fair and civil " when dealing with others.

Translated by Roger Ariew as Descartes ' Philosophy Interpreted According to the Order of Reasons ( Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984 ).

According to the University ’ s website, Strayer University now operates additional campuses in Delaware, New Jersey, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Utah, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

According to the College Board, as of July 2012 there are 34, 812 undergraduates at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.

According to Rod Carew, he learned when Wynn came to Minnesota as a coach, his competitiveness didn't end when his career did.

According to one source, " he came to Minnesota in 1922 with a traveling team called the Mesaba Range Black Sox, which featured three other members of the 1919 Black Sox team: Happy Felsch, Buck Weaver and Lefty Williams.

According to Schulz, Frieda's character was inspired by his longtime friend Frieda Rich, a local artist whom he met while taking classes at the Art Instruction Schools in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

According to the Minnesota Department of Corrections, the prison's nine complexes are “ specialized uniquely to help facilitate a safe, secure, and humane environment for the offenders incarcerated as well as the staff who work at Oak Park Heights ”.

According to the U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service documents, his parents emigrated to America in 1902 via the port of Duluth, Minnesota.

According to Roger Feldman, Blue Cross Professor of Health Insurance at the University of Minnesota, one of the main reasons that medical fraud is such a prevalent practice is that nearly all of the parties involved find it favorable in some way.

According to his keynote speech on October 13, 2007, at the Sinclair Lewis writing conference in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he still intended to compete in the Iditarod.

According to D. C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hill's treatment by the panel also contributed to the large number of women elected to Congress in 1992, " women clearly went to the polls with the notion in mind that you had to have more women in Congress ", she said.

According to White House and Congressional Budget Office figures, the maximum share of income that enrollees would have to pay for the " silver " healthcare plan would vary depending on their income relative to the federal poverty level, as follows: for families with income 133 – 150 % of FPL will be 3-4 % of income, for families with income of 150 – 200 % of FPL will be 4-6. 3 % of income, for families with income 200 – 250 % of FPL will be 6. 3-8. 05 % of income, for families with income 250-300 % of FPL will be 8. 05-9. 5 % of income, for families with income from 300 to 400 % of FPL will be 9. 5 % of income.

According to Congressional testimony, the CIA experimented with utilizing LSD and hypnosis for mind control.

According to the Joint Congressional Committee on Presidential Inaugurations, George Washington added the words " So help me God " during his first inaugural, though this has been disputed.

According to Congressional testimony, Daugherty allegedly arranged for Jess Smith and Howard Mannington to sell these permits to drug company agents who in actuality represented bootleggers.

According to former Congressional Budget Office analyst Christopher Barnekov, such contracts allowed the rail carriers and their shippers much more opportunity readily to develop more efficient transport arrangements which lowered costs for the carriers, yielding better returns for the carriers and lower rates for the shippers.

According to Congressional Quarterly, " In 2002, Sanchez voted against reviving fast-track procedures for congressional action on trade deals.

According to the Congressional Quarterly Press ' 2008 City Crime Rankings: Crime in Metropolitan America, Virginia Beach, Virginia ranks 311th in violent crime amount 385 cities containing more than 75, 000 inhabitants.

According to Texas Republican Congressman Dr. Ron Paul in his " A Tribute to the Late Harry Browne " which was read into the Congressional Record in 2006, " How You Can Profit From the Coming Devaluation is generally recognized as the founding document of the hard money movement, which combined the insights of the Austrian economists with a practical investment strategy.

According to Congressional Budget Office estimates, the federal tax system is a progressive tax system for earners all but the richest 1 % of Americans.

* * According to the Congressional Research Service, Sen. Chambliss is the only senator since 1947 to have chaired a full standing Senate Committee ( Agriculture ) after serving in the Senate for just two years.

According to U. S. Navy officials and the Congressional Research Service the U. S. Navy has drawn up plans to expand its fleet of ballistic missile-defense-capable warships from 26 ships today to 36 by 2018.

According to the CRS, " The LIS ... provides bill summary and status, full text of legislation and public laws, full text of committee reports, hearings, and other documents, and the Congressional Record for the current and earlier Congresses.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Baca, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, directed Caucus funds from its PAC BOLDPAC ( Building Our Leadership Diversity ) to the unsuccessful California campaigns of his sons, Joe Baca, Jr. and Jeremy Baca.

According to Henry B. Hogue, of the Government and Finance Division of the Congressional Research Service,

According to the Congressional Research Service, President Bill Clinton made 139 recess appointments.

According to the website, this taskforce " The Task Force on Oversight and Regulatory Review is responsible for taking a look at the nearly 8, 000 regulations issued annually by the federal government and for analyzing these new rules to ensure Congressional intent is appropriately followed.

According to Congressional Quarterly, " The conference chairman manages the private meetings to elect floor leaders, handles distribution of committee assignments and helps set legislative priorities.

According to Congressional Quarterly, " Created in 1947, the Policy Committee is in effect a legislative think tank.

" According to Judicial Watch, Clinton and top Congressional Democrats encouraged the IRS to audit them and say that an IRS agent asked them, " What do you expect when you sue the President?

According to the " baseline " forecast of federal revenue and spending by the Congressional Budget Office ( in its January 2005 Baseline Budget Projections, the budget deficits will decrease over the next several years.

According to the U. S. Trade Representative website, Zoellick completed negotiations to bring China and Taiwan into the World Trade Organization ( WTO ); developed a strategy to launch new global trade negotiations at the WTO meeting in Doha, Qatar ; shepherded Congressional action on the Jordan Free Trade Agreement and the Vietnam Trade Agreement ; and worked with Congress to pass the Trade Act of 2002, which included new Trade Promotion Authority.

According to Lewis, it " prompted a Justice Department ruling, a General Accounting Office report, a Congressional hearing, was cited by four presidential candidates in 1992 and was partly responsible for an executive order in January 1993 by President Clinton, placing a lifetime ban on foreign lobbying by White House trade officials.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, between 1979 and 2007 incomes of the top 1 % of Americans grew by an average of 275 %.