At Lac qui Parle, Dakota kin networks, the fur trade, and the coming of Christianity shaped the lives of several prominent people tied to Joseph and Mary Tokanne Renville. Tokanne, or Mary Little Crow Renville, a Kaposia Bdewakantuŋwan born in 1789, married Joseph Renville and made Lac qui Parle a second home for her kin after Fort Renville was established there; she became the first Dakota Christian and died there in 1840, while her youngest son, John Renville, later became the first ordained Dakota pastor. Joseph Renville, born in 1779 and raised in both Dakota and Canadian worlds, followed the fur trade to the Upper Minnesota River, established Fort Renville at Lac qui Parle by the 1820s, used his fluency in Dakota and western cultures to aid his relatives, brought Christian missionaries to help them adapt as the fur trade declined, and died there in 1846 professing Christ. Other Dakota figures connected to Lac qui Parle included Anpetutokeça, later known as John Otherday, who led settler refugees to safety during the 1862 War and then served as a scout with Sibley's army; Tatidutawin, baptized Catherine in 1837 as the second Dakota Christian, who practiced herbal and spiritual medicine and later joined the Peace Party with her son Towaniteton Lorenzo Lawrence; Mazakutemani, or Little Paul, who said he was the first Dakota man to farm and wear white men's clothes and later became a leader in the Hazlewood Republic and Peace Party; Waŋbdiokiya, an early Dakota literacy teacher who took his family to Canada in 1862 rather than choose sides and later became Christian; Towaniteton, or Lorenzo Lawrence, who studied in Ohio, became the first Dakota citizen of Minnesota, helped captives escape in the 1862 War, and later helped found the Brown Earth Dakota Community; Anawangmani, the first Dakota man to become a Christian, who became a church elder, Hazlewood Republic leader, Peace Party member, and pastor; and Taoyateduta, or Little Crow, who had earlier been a soldier in Joseph Renville's lodge at Lac qui Parle before later leading the pro-war Dakotas in the U.S. Dakota War of 1862. Their intertwined lives reflected how marriage ties between Kaposia and Wahpetuŋwaŋ people linked the Dakota community at Lac qui Parle across kinship, religion, politics, war, and adaptation.