Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Volume 55, PT. 1907 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...to Montreal, two, including Pemoussa, the hero of Detroit, died of small-pox in Canada; a third, Okimaouasen, was employed in later negotiations and ultimately returned to his tribe." One result, interesting for Wisconsin history, arose from Louvigny's sham war-exploit---the establishment of the first permanent French post at Green Bay, under the command of Etienne Rocbert, Sieur de la Morandiere.'" This officer vainly attempted to detach the Winnebago (Puants) and Sank from the Fox alliance; the Menominee were the only Bay tribes upon whose allegiance he could count. Warned by experience, the Foxes, never abandoning their design of vengeance upon the faithless French, nevertheless learned to temporize, and by astute diplomacy lulled the ofiicers into a belief that they were subdued. Vaudreuil, in 1719, reported their docility to the authorities in France, and seems assured that they, as well as the Kickapoo and Mascoutin, are "disposed to maintain peace with all the Nations,"" little dreaming that at that very time they were intriguing with a brave Acadian tribe to come and settle among them and fill their depleted ranks." It would be interesting if one could identify the "forestborn Demosthenes" among the Foxes, who by his eloquence was building up a series of alliances that threatened the very integrity of New France. Some nameless precursor of Pontiac and Tecumseh dwelt among the Wisconsin tribesmen, and by his-diplomatic skill arrayed barbarism against civilization, savage valor against colonizing ardor, the passion for revenge against the white man's greed. Wherever throughout the breadth of the continent a tribe felt dissatisfaction with traders', ...