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Medicine Creek (Republican River tributary)

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impounds the Harry Strunk reservoir, 1,850 acres (750 ha) in area and primarily created for flood-control. A state park and recreational area is located around the dam and lower portion of the reservoir. Medicine Creek is spring fed. Water quality is good and quantity is reliable.
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A 12 mi (19 km) portion of Medicine Creek around the reservoir and extending up Lime Creek, a tributary, has been an area of extensive archaeological research since the 1920s. Findings include fossils of extinct
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in 1870. In the same year white cattlemen began to settle near the creek. In fall 1872, the Oglala chief Whistler and two more Oglala were murdered, probably by white
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U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data.
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to its confluence with the Republican River .5 mi (0.80 km) east of
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Medicine Creek
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hunters, and in 1873-1874 the Oglala departed the valley to reside on a
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Medicine Creek: Seventy Years of Archaeological Investigations
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Medicine Creek (Republican River)

United States
Nebraska
40°50′20″N 100°53′09″W / 40.83889°N 100.88583°W / 40.83889; -100.88583
Mouth
Republican River
40°16′55″N 100°08′53″W / 40.28194°N 100.14806°W / 40.28194; -100.14806

Republican River
Nebraska
Nebraska Sand Hills
Somerset
Lincoln County
Frontier County
Cambridge
Furnas County, Nebraska
Medicine Creek Dam
mixed grass prairies
tallgrass prairie
shortgrass prairie
steppe
Great Plains
Native Americans
Platte Rivers
Oglala
Dakota
Stockville
bison
reservation

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