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The Crow Creek exile occupies a centralplace in the history of the Dakota nation.

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Life for the Dakota becameincreasingly diffi cult in the 1850s.

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During that fi rst summer, Thompsonhired white men to establish farms,

but he fully expected that the Indianswould take over in short order and

produce their own subsistence.

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The cattle destined to feed the Dakotaand Ho-Chunk were emaciated, and the fl our

and other supplies had begun to rot.

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In their efforts to feed theirfamilies, Dakota women also turned

to white settlers living nearby.

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One vital element of survival atCrow Creek was Dakota women’s

skills in preparing meat and hides;another was their knowledge ofnutritional and medicinal plants.

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