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underground in bell-shaped storage pits lined with grass and covered with logs or bison hides.
• Many Oneota groups settled on flood plains along rivers, and the Blood Run site eight miles southeast of Sioux Falls is likely the largest of the Oneota sites. The area was occupied in later times by the Omaha, Ponca, Ioway and Oto, and archeologists believe that many tribes can trace their lineage back to the Oneota.
• Blood Run is believed to have received its name from white settlers, perhaps because the iron-rich rocks leached into the stream on the Iowa side to give it a reddish tint.
• Iowa's Blood Run National Landmark Site across the Big Sioux River is managed by the State Historical Society of Iowa and the Lyon County Conservation Board. People can visit the site by booking guided tours through the county. It is home to Blood Run Creek and features numerous burial mounds. There are several pink granite boulders whitened from weathering and adorned with 2-inch cup-shaped indentations that have a symbolic or spiritual purpose.
• The entire Blood Run site could eventually encompass some 1,400 acres in South Dakota and Iowa. The department's master plan calls for entrance roads, a visitors center, historic preservation and interpretation, group and rustic camping areas, ceremonial sites and a pedestrian bridge linking the South Dakota and Iowa sides.
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• TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Lottery officials say someone in northeast Kansas has hit the Hot Lotto jackpot, worth more than $9 million.
• The Kansas Lottery says the winner of Saturday's multi-state drawing can choose to take $9.43 million prize in 25 installments or take the cash option of $7.15 million before taxes.
• Lottery officials urge the holder of the winning ticket to sign the back of it immediately and put it in a safe place until claiming the jackpot.
• The Lottery says the state's northeast region includes 21 counties. It's the fifth time a Hot Lotto jackpot has been hit in Kansas since the state joined the game in 2006.
• Hot Lotto is played in 14 states and the District of Columbia.
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