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Page 3 lived in a dug-out or it may have been a sod shanty. Now lets take a look at Okobojo. The Okobojo Valley lies about twenty two miles north of Pierre. If we were to start at the townsite of Okobojo and go east to the source of the Okobojo Creek, which runs through the Valley we would come out about eight or ten miles east and maybe some south of Gettysburg. The creek empties into the Missouri river about eighteen miles west and south of the Okobojo townsite. Before the dirty thirties came along and before sully lake dam was built the Okobojo had running water most of the year. Before the white man arrived the creek was a watering place for buffalo and Indians. Some of the old buffalo trails were still visible when I was growing up. The word Okobojo, so I have been told, means “Valley of Nettles”. This is an Indian name and was so named by them. I can remember bunches of nettles growing along the creek bank. If you put your hand on them they would sting and |