The Wisconsin Archeologist, Volumes 14-15Charles Edward Brown Wisconsin Archeological Society, 1915 |
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Page 66 - The Empire State, as you love to call it, was once laced by our trails from Albany to Buffalo — trails that we had trod for centuries — trails worn so deep by the feet of the Iroquois that they became your roads of travel, as your possessions gradually eat into those of my people. Your roads still traverse those same lines of communication which bound one part of the Long House to the other. Have we, the first holders of this prosperous region, no longer a share in your history ? Glad were your...
Page 31 - Menominies to be in a bad situation as to their chiefs. There is no one we can talk to as head of the nation. If anything should happen, we want some man who has authority in the nation that we can look to. You appear like a flock of geese, without a leader, some fly one way and some another. To-morrow, at the opening of the council, we shall appoint a principal chief of the Menominies.
Page 50 - The amount of filling that has been done upon this portion is immense, averaging twenty-two feet over the entire tract. There was a small island near the corner of Second and Clybourn streets, upon which was a large elm tree. All else was a watery waste. At Spring street the ground commenced to harden, and from there to Chestnut, with the exception of West Water from Spring to Third (which was also marsh), the whole was a swamp, upon which grew tamaracks, black ash, tag alder and cedar in abundance.
Page 34 - By virtue of the power and authority in me vested I do hereby constitute and appoint you to be captain in the corps of Loyal Rangers, whereof Edward Jessup, Esq., is Major-Commandant.
Page 3 - Charlevoix (Shea trans.,' v, 305, 1881) when he says they "infested with their robberies and filled with murders not only the neighborhood of the Bay [Green bay], their natural territory, but almost all the routes communicating with the remote colonial posts, as well as those leading from Canada to Louisiana. Except the Sioux, who often joined them, and the Iroquois, with whom they had formed an alliance, ... all the nations in alliance with us suffered greatly from these hostilities.
Page 69 - The memory of the Red Man ! How can it pass away While their names of music linger On each mount, and stream, and bay...
Page 152 - Lake Superior. In 1794, he returned to La Pointe, but this time as a clerk for the company. In 1795, he was appointed as one of the company's agents, being sent out with a supply of goods to explore and establish posts on the west shore of Lake Michigan. The goods were contained in a large Mackinaw boat, heavily loaded and manned by twelve men. He, with his family, — consisting, then, of mother, Madeleine, Paul and Jacques, — followed in a large bark canoe, in which was also stored the camping...
Page 79 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 34 - GIVEN under my hand and Seal at Arms, at Montreal this Seventeenth Day of August One thousand seven hundred and seventy Eight in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith and so Forth FRED: HALDIMAND By his Excellency's command. E. FOY" 85 This was the chief known to the Creoles of Green Bay as Old King.
Page 3 - Algonquian trite against whom the French waged war. In addition to their disposition to be constantly at strife with their neighbors, they had conceived a hatred of the French because of the aid which the latter gave the Chippewa and others by furnishing firearms, and because they gathered the various tribes for the purpose of destroying the Foxes. The proposal to exterminate them was seriously considered in the French councils, and their destruction would earlier have been attempted but for the...