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936 WISCONSIN IIISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.

original place of abode, corresponds quite well with that of the
Algonquin nation, that they came from the salt water.
When CARVER visited the Winnebagoes, they had left
Green Bay, and were residing on Fox river, and the Lake
which bears their name, and after the Sauks and Foxes had
left the Wisconsin river, the Winnebagoes occupied that re-
gion, where the present white population found them, and
from whence they were removed, when taken from the State
to Iowa.
The Sacs, Sauks or Saukies, next come into viem,among the
Aboriginal occupants of our State. The account which
BLACK HAWK gives of his people, in his Life, conflicts very
materially with that of SHEA'S authorities. The old Chief
says that hie people origiilally resided near Quebec; and
fromhis own account, must have been like Ishmael, their
hands against every body, and, of course every body's hands
would be against them in self defence, till they were re-
duced to a mere handful. They first fell back to Montreal,
and from thence to Mackinaw, and being still pursued by
their euemies, probably because they kept up their aggres-
sions on others, they retreated from place to place until
they settled on Sac river of Green Bay. The Poxes being
reduced by similar means, and for similar cause, to s small
number, also, here joined the Sauks for mutual defence and
protection. The united bands afterwards became more formi-
dable, and continuing their depredations on others, the injured
parties united against them and drove them to the Wisconsin
River, where they met the Sioux in fearful combat.
Prom thence they explored the country south as far as Rock
River and Island, finding a beautiful country, and still con-
tinuing their marauding habits, drove the Icas-kas-kas from
their then homes, and took posaession of them for themselves.
On reading this account of them from their own head chief, I
had less of sympathy for them, and less regret that the mete
they had given to others had been dealt out to them by the
whites, who drove them from the same beautiful region in 1832.