 When the land that included today's Saint Paul was ceded to England after the French and Indian War, Carver was dispatched by England to explore the new colonial possession.He traveled up the Mississippi River, and encountered the Dakota on the bluffs in Saint Paul and Wakan Tipi on November 14, 1766.His discovery of the cave and the Dakota led him to explore the spiritual site, describing in detail, “The rock at the enterance of the cave is of lightish gray colour and very soft like the grit of a grindstone.