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To: ManyMoose who wrote (123)	7/19/2006 7:11:43 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) of 194

The "white damsels in distress" aspect is what helps sell a movie like Last of the Mohicans. If Lewis and Clark had brought along some white women, Hollywood would be a lot more interested in the tale. My Minnesota story has the same problem. Somewhere around 1750, the Ojibwe (Chippewa) kicked the Lakota (Sioux) out of northern Minnesota. A couple decades later, the Lakota sent a large war party north for vengeance. They made a "grand tour" through the lake country around Brainerd, and captured a bunch of Objibwe women. But an Ojibwe war party headed south crossed their cold trail and figured out what was going on. They set up an ambush on the upper Mississippi River at Crow Wing, and really clobbered the Lakota as they paddled by. The story is that one young Lakota maiden begged her brave not to go on the trip, but he insisted despite her premonition of his death. Later that summer she was fetching water where the Lakota lived below the Falls of Saint Anthony (modern Minneapolis/Saint Paul). She reached down toward the water with her container, and there below the surface was horrified to see the drifting body of her sweetheart!

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