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In a 70-foot keelboat with an entourage of one sergeant, two corporals, and seventeen privates, Pike reached the mouth of the Minnesota River in about four weeks at what is now called Pike’s Island. Pike and his men built a camp and raised the American flag. The next day a group of Sioux came over to find out who and what they were doing. An able talker, Pike established correlations with them, and a formal council was held at which Pike asked the Sioux to make peace with their Chippewa enemies, and sell the United States two (carefully chosen) pieces of land for military forts; one at the mouth of the St. Croix River and the other at the mouth of the Minnesota. The price he negotiated with the Indians came to 1.28 cents per acre.

............................................... They called him the Prairie Chicken because he had a shock of fiery red hair that swept back from his forehead like a crest. His name was Josiah Snelling, and in 1820 he was sent by the U.S. Army to the Minnesota wilderness to build the fort that would bear his name. Colonel Snelling had a temper that matched the color of his hair, but under his leadership in the 1820s, Fort Snelling—the northernmost military post in the United States—became a vanguard of Western settlement. Built high on the bluffs above the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers, the fort looked down on a valley where two major cities would be built before the end of the century.

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Following our instinct is a pretty basic skill that most people use without even thinking about it. We make decisions all day every day using our instinct. There are many different names to describe instinct. Some people say they are following their gut. Often I hear people say it just didn’t “feel” right. We all know what it’s like to instantly know that a decision is correct. In the paranormal world we say that you’re communicating with your guides. Those spiritual beings whose job it is to help us along in life. When I have big decisions to make in my life I go into meditation and communicate with my guides about the correct course of action to take. If I have to make a quick decision, I rely on my gut instinct. The old saying, “Just sleep on it” has to do with communicating with your guides. When you’re sleeping your guides are able to communicate with you directly. How many times have you had something on your mind when you went to bed and in the morning you knew the answer to it. We often marvel at how simple the answer is in the morning and wonder why we couldn’t figure it out the night before. Our guides provided us with the perfect answer and

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