Sleepy Eye is a small city in rural Brown County, Minnesota, United States.

The chief was one of four Sioux Native Americans (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 the land but a 10-mile swath on each side of the upper Minnesota River to the U.S. government.

33.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 17.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

34.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 19.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Residents of Sleepy Eye made national headlines in the early 1990s for trying to ban MTV in the town.

[11] On the television series Little House on the Prairie, Charles Ingalls sometimes made deliveries to Sleepy Eye, which was portrayed as the nearest larger town to Walnut Grove, Minnesota, where the Ingallses resided.

It was also the (fictional) home of the blind school that Mary Ingalls and her TV-husband, Adam Kendall, ran later in the series.