THIS IS WHERE WE LIVE

Our village elders told us our people came from far away. We left our village on the big river that you call the Mississippi and traveled here to this land where there are many trees and good earth for growing our crops.

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The people who lived in this village are "prehistoric" because they lived a thousand years ago and no one wrote any "history" about them.  We don't know what they were called, and there is no mention of them in any historical record. 

They are thought to have traveled up the Mississippi River system.  Lake Mitchell did not exist when they lived here.  The Firesteel Creek would have run past this area. The people came to a site like this and set up a settlement. 

Here they grew beans and corn, made pottery, clothing, and tools, and hunted buffalo.  We really don't know what brought them here or what made them leave.  It is thought that they gradually ran out of trees to build dwellings and to use for heat.  Then they maybe just traveled to a place further up river. 

As far as we know, they were a peaceful, farming community.  Nothing has been found to suggest any battles in this area.  It is thought that these people could be ancestors of the Mandan Indians in North Dakota as their houses and life styles were similar.