The Wisconsin Archeologist, Volumes 14-15Charles Edward Brown Wisconsin Archeological Society, 1915 |
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aboriginal bones burial mounds cache celts cemetery chief Chippewa collection conical mounds copper implements corn creek cultivation dance east Edgewood effigy mounds Eho Eto Haven excavated farm feet high feet in diameter feet in length field Fond du Lac formerly Garden Beds gravel pit graves Green Bay ground group of mounds Group Plate hill Historical Museum inches Indian camp Indian village Lac Court Oreilles lake bank Lake Wingra Lake Winnebago land Lapham large number linear mound located Madison Manitowoc Manitowoc county Manitowoc Rapids Manitowoc river marsh Menominee miles Milwaukee River Outagamie county panther effigies Prairie present quarter of Section region relic hunters reported Reserve road settlers Sheboygan Sheboygan river shelter short distance side skeleton specimens stone street Taycheedah tion township trade trail trees tribes Vilas Park village sites W. H. Colls width Winnebago Wisconsin Archeological Society Wisconsin Archeologist woods writer
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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...
Page 23 - ... British. He talked with them awhile without any apparent favorable results, when he concluded to resort to his knowledge of Indian habits and customs. He built a lodge in the midst of the village, with a door at each end ; had several dogs killed, and had the dog-feast prepared ; then placed the raw heart of a dog on a stick at each door. Then the Indians partook of the feast, when DE LANGLADE, singing the war song, and marching around within the lodge, as he passed one door he bent down and...
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 48 - 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 33 - 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 150 - 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 equipage. My father's clerk, on that trip, was Mike le Petteel.
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 77 - 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...