{"id":31061,"count":1,"description":"Sleepy Eye is a city in Brown County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 3,599 at the 2010 census.\nU.S. Route 14 and Minnesota State Highways 4, and 68 are three of the main arterial routes in the city.\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.2\u00a0km), of which, 1.7 square miles (4.4\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78\u00a0km) of it (14.29%) is water.\nSleepy Eye is named after Chief Sleepy Eye, or Ishtakhaba, who was known as a compassionate person with droopy eyelids (or maybe just one), hence his name.\nThe Chief was one of four Sioux Indians (four Ojibwe also attended) chosen to meet President James Monroe in 1824 in the nation's capital. Later, Sleepy Eye was an integral player in the 1851 signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux, which gave all of the land but a 10-mile swath on each side of the upper Minnesota River to the U.S. government. His recommendations to traders led to the successful settlement of...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/sleepy-eye\/","name":"Sleepy Eye","slug":"sleepy-eye","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/31061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=31061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}