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20 away that the Ree hunters could not get them, and thus they really starved out their enemies, who, as we have seen, moved to a new home on the Grand River. As military men would say, the Rees were flanked out of their position by the Sioux.

In 1775 the enterprising Oglala branch of the Teton Sioux had penetrated as far as the Black Hills, where they paid their compliments to the Kiowas and before the end of the eighteenth century had driven them away, and settled in their territory. While the Teton Sioux were thus making a settlement west of the Missouri, their relatives the Yanktons, who like themselves had been crowded out of the Minnesota timber, were trying to find a home in the lower country between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. They settled among the Osages, but were driven away. Then they conquered a small territory in the Otto country in western Iowa, but finally were driven away from there with the loss of all their horses and other property. Before the Teton Sioux went to the Missouri they had driven the Omahas from the Big Sioux and James rivers to a new home south of the Missouri, and the Teton Sioux claimed