Upper Mississippi, Or, Historical Sketches of the Mound-builders, the Indian Tribes and the Progress of Civilization in the North-west, from A.D. 1600 to the Present Time |
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acres Algonquin allies Allouez annually annuity Arkansas river attacked August bands Black Hawk boundary line bushels called Canada canoes Captain ceded chiefs Chippeways civilization commandant commenced confederacy Congress creek Crow Dakota Delawares Detroit English Erie established fall Father feet fifty Fox river French Governor of Canada Green Bay hundred Illinois Iowa Iroquois Jesuit July June Kansas Kaskaskia Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Superior land Louis Mackinaw Marquette Mascotens Menominies Miamies Michigan miles Milwaukee Minnesota mission missionaries Mississippi Missouri river Mound-Builders mounds mouth nations navigation nearly north-west north-western October Ohio river Omahas Osages Ottawas party peace place of beginning Potowatomies Prairie Du Chien President prisoners probably railroad reservation returned Sacs and Foxes Salle sent Shawnees Sieur Sioux surrender territory thence tion tract trade treaty tribe troops United upper valley village visited warriors western Winnebagoes Wisconsin river