. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . hree decades would seemto indicate the early exterminationof the race. The Winnebagoes, or first divi-sion of the Sioux, had their terri-tories aforetime on the Fox riverand the approximate parts of lakeMichigan. Thence they spreadnorthward into Wisconsin
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . hree decades would seemto indicate the early exterminationof the race. The Winnebagoes, or first divi-sion of the Sioux, had their terri-tories aforetime on the Fox riverand the approximate parts of lakeMichigan. Thence they spreadnorthward into Wisconsin. Thename Winnebago was given tothis branch of the race by theirneighbors, the Algonquins. TheSioti name is Hotanke, meaningthe Sturgeon Indians. The na-tive name is Hoehungara, mean-thc Trout nation. They were the outlying eastern selvage of the Dakota- Siou family, and were Place and divi- among the earliest to meet sionsoftheWm- ,-1 -r> -1 1 r nebagoes. the r rencn adventurers ofthe sixteenth and seventeenth were at an early date greatly re-duced by disease and war. Their relations 111 NORTHERN ABORIGINES.—DAKO TA-SIOUX, 4!»!) with the French were friendly, and af-terwards they leagued with the Britishagainst the Americans. At the presenttime they occupy the Winnebago reser-vation in Nebraska, where, reduced to. SQUAW AND by D. Lancelot. the number of about fifteen hundred,they have become small farmers, andhave entered feebly into the vocationsand manners of the civilized life. The Dakotas proper call themselvesOchcti Shakowing, meaning the SevenThe Dakotas Council Fires. This namethey gave to themselvesaforetime because of theseven villages, or towns, which consti-tuted the chief centers of the race. Theterritorial locus of this division was theupper Mississippi and the St. Peters,extending westward to the Dakotas were divided into seventribes, whose territories lay about theirtowns, as, for instance, the village ofthe Holy L
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