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246 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.

tachment to the American cause when, in 1819, Gov. CASS
pulled down the British flag and raised the American at Sault
St. Marie, was made a chicf by the Governor; and who, from
his ability, was the leading speaker on the part of the Chippe-
was; rose and drew down his brow as if a thunder-gust had lit
upon it, while his eyes flashed like lightning, and the quick mo-
tion of his head caused his long black hair to whip and snap in
the air, and said with shn'rpness, "upon the same ground, Sir,
that our Great Father claimed this country from the British
Icing-by conquest." "Then," said the Governor, "you must
have it." The Governor, however, in the final settlement of
the line betweell them, divided the dispnted country, giving the
Chippewas the greater share.
These metes and bounds between the sevcral tribes being
established, mere to be regartled as under the protectorate of
the Ciovernn~ent; maps of which mere made, and are yet ex-
tant. But as the Indian titles to the whole State have been
extinguished, it is of little consequence, in an essay like this,
to describe them. The historian would do well to do so, at-
taching a map thereto.
, The first white ~nan who came to what is now Wisconsin,
was NICOLET, an early trader, who, with his voyagers, visited
Green Bay in 1639. It is probable that the traders thereafter
made annual visits to that Bay; but we have no evidence that
a permanent settlement was made there by the whites, till over
a a century afterwards, say, in 1745.
+ In 1663, ALLOUEZ is said to have established a mission
there, but it is extremely doubtful whether it continued long,
as the Sioux, in 1670, drove all intruders of thc Algic race
< from their territory west of Lake Michigan.* In 1686, we
> find the mission of St. I~'RANC;IS XAVTER still maintained on

3 *It nns not till e~rly in December 1669, that Father CLAUDE ALLOUE~
i reached Green Bny, and sflying his first m 18s on the festival of St. FRANCIS
Xavrs~. c>rllod the Xission by that onme. In 1670, he twice ascended the
FOX River, nnd twice overthrew 11 rude unshapely roolr, honored as nnidol hy
the benighted Indinns at tho Iinknlin rt~pid. 80e Jeli~it Relatao~ls, S~rraa's
FAst
works, and ~~CITH'~ qf JRr. L. C. L).