Annual Report and Collections of the State Historical Society, of Wisconsin, for the Year ..., Bände 1-2State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1855 |
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Seite 466 - It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Seite 36 - It is certainly the greatest nation of Indians ever yet found. Not above two thousand of them were ever armed with fire-arms, the rest depending entirely on bows and arrows and darts, which they use with more skill than any other Indian nation in North America. They can shoot the wildest and largest beasts in the woods, at seventy or one hundred yards distance. They are remarkable for their dancing ; the other nations take the fashion from them.
Seite 431 - Winebagoes, that so far as respects their interest in the premises, the whole matter shall be referred to the President of the United States, whose decision shall be final. And the President is authorized, on their parts, to establish such boundaries between them and the New York Indians as he may consider equitable and just.
Seite 145 - Roulette; and in another, sat a party engaged in playing at cards. One man sat back in a corner, playing a fiddle, to whose music two others were dancing in the middle of the room. Hundreds of dollars were lying upon the tables; and among the crowd were the principal men of the Territory — men who held high and responsible offices then, and do now. Being pretty much worn out by our journey, we expressed a wish to retire. The landlord showed us through a dark, room, and opened the...
Seite 436 - President is empowered to apportion* the lands among the actual occupants at that time, so as not to assign to any tribe a greater number of acres than may be equal to one hundred for each soul actually settled upon the lands ; and if at the time of such apportionment, any lands shall remain unoccupied by any tribe of the New York Indians, such portion as would have belonged to said Indians, had it been occupied, shall revert to the United States. That portion, if any, 80 reverting, to be laidoflfby...
Seite 170 - MABSH and told him that if he proceeded any farther in the case, he would report him to Gov. CASS. That ended the proceeding. In 1830, a party of Sauks and Foxes killed some Sioux, on. or about the head-waters of Red Cedar River, in the now State of Iowa ; and, the same season, a band of Fox Indians, who resided about where Dubuque now is, had occasion to visit Prairie du Chien o» business with the Agent, whom they had previously informed that they would arrive on a certain day.
Seite 130 - Juneau was the first white settler in Milwaukee. He was a native of Canada, and immigrated to that place in the fall of 1818, and built him a log cabin among the natives. At that time his family consisted of a wife and one child. His nearest white neighbors were at Chicago, Green Bay and Prairie du Chien. He kept a few goods suitable for the Indian trade, and for the first seventeen years he: was not only the only merchant in the place, but the only white man. During that period, a few Indian traders...
Seite 176 - ... was valid without any other ceremony. Many of the women, married in this way, believed, in their simplicity and ignorance, that they were as lawfully the wives of the men they lived with, as though they had been married with all the ceremony and solemnity possible. A woman of Prairie du Chien, respectable in her class, told me that she was attending a ball in the place, and that a trader, who resided on the Lower Mississippi, had his canoe loaded to leave as soon as the ball was over, proposed...
Seite 217 - Night now coming on, and having heard the reports of half a dozen or so of guns in the direction of the fort, by a few Indians who rushed out from the woods skirting Bob's Creek, not more than forty rods from the north end of the fort. This movement on the part of the few Indians who had escaped when the others took refuge in the Sink Hole, was...
Seite 228 - There were at least twenty furnaces in the immediate neighborhood ; and the lead was run into plaques or plats, or flats, of about seventy pounds each. These flats were formed by smelting the mineral in a small walled hole, in which the fuel and mineral were mingled, and the liquid lead run out, in front, into a hole scooped in the earth, so that a bowl-shaped mass of Lad was formed therein.