THEY ARE CALLED MDEWKANTON, OR 'THOSE WHO BORN OF THE WATERS' HAVE LIVED HERE FOR NUMEROUS GENERATIONS. THEY HAVE LIVED HERE FOR NUMEROUS GENERATIONS. THEY LIVE IN THE SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AND VERMILLION RIVERS, A SPIRITUAL POLACE.
THEY OPERATE A RESORT AND CASINO WHICH GIVES THEM ECONOMIC POSSIBILITIES. THE PRAIRIE ISLAND FOLKS ARE PART OF A GROUP CALLED "DWELLERS OF SPIRIT LAKE". THEY ARE ONE OF SEVEN TRIBES WHO ARE AND ALLIANCE OF SEVEN COUNCIL FIRES MOST OF THE WORLD KNOWS US AS SIOUX WHICH COMES FROM OJIBWA,'LITTLE SNAKE'. THE FRENCH CHANGED IT TO SIOUX, THEY CALL THEMSELVES THE 'FRIENDS'. THEY HAVE RESERVATIONS IN NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA, MINNESOTA, NEBRASKA, AND MONTANANA.
IN 1992 THEY PURCHASED A BISON FROM SOUTH DAKOTA. BY 2005 THEY HAVE A HERD OF 40 AND IT IS ON ABOUT 200 ACRES OF TRIBAL LAND. IT PROVIDESSOME MEAT TO FAMILILIES,
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