Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States; collected and prepared under the direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs per act of Congress of March 3rd, 1847 . ty their first acquaintance with the whites, eight generationsago, and for a long time before this, they agree in stating that Moningwunakaun(Lapointe) had formed their central seat and town. Many of the chiefs, and lessthinking old men, even affirm and beheve, that this is the spot in which their ancestorshave Uved since the world was new. It is only
Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States; collected and prepared under the direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs per act of Congress of March 3rd, 1847 . ty their first acquaintance with the whites, eight generationsago, and for a long time before this, they agree in stating that Moningwunakaun(Lapointe) had formed their central seat and town. Many of the chiefs, and lessthinking old men, even affirm and beheve, that this is the spot in which their ancestorshave Uved since the world was new. It is only by a study of their varied andnumerous fable-hke traditions, that I can trace them as coming from an easterlydirection, prior to their residence on the island of Lapointe. From these traditions welearn that they once were familiar with the great salt ocean — again, that they oncelived on a great river, — again, on a great lake, where they exterminated a powerfultribe they call the Mundau; at last we find them on Lake Superior, from which place w Oh 03 S? £?: a o »•;) <? fe; p£l ; 1^ co n ^ a i4 ??^1 r-i Vxl l^ p-i l,.l ^^ r ^ <? ]-l g^ a Kl u —1 <? g. HISTORY, AND GOVERNMENT. 13T they have still pressed westward for the past two centuries, till they occupy all thecountry about the head-waters of the Mississippi; and stand, one foot on the edge ofthe vast western prairies, and the other in the dense forests of Eastern America.(Plate 31.) With the same progressive advance they have been making for two hundred yearspast, it has taken this tribe eight hundred years, from the time they left the easternsear-board of the Atlantic, to assume their present local position on this time and progress, however, are only assumed, as they may have been driven westto Lake Superior, with much more celerity than they have advanced, since ouracquaintance with them as a tribe. In the inquiries set on foot by the Indian Department of our Government, respectingthe
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