. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] STSSETON 581 Le Sueur, and Charlevoix, and from the maps publii^hed under the superinten- dence of these authors, it is suthciently clear that in the latter part of the 17th century the principal residence of the Isanyati Sioux [Mdewakanton, Wahpe- ton, Wahpekute, and Sisseton] was about the headwaters of Rum r., whence they extended their hunts to St Croix and Mis- sissippi rs., and down the latter nearly or quite as far as the mouth of the Wisconsin.'' (Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., i, 295, 1872.) The first recorded mention of the tribe is probably that of Hennepin
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] STSSETON 581 Le Sueur, and Charlevoix, and from the maps publii^hed under the superinten- dence of these authors, it is suthciently clear that in the latter part of the 17th century the principal residence of the Isanyati Sioux [Mdewakanton, Wahpe- ton, Wahpekute, and Sisseton] was about the headwaters of Rum r., whence they extended their hunts to St Croix and Mis- sissippi rs., and down the latter nearly or quite as far as the mouth of the Wisconsin.'' (Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., i, 295, 1872.) The first recorded mention of the tribe is probably that of Hennepin (Descr. La., 1683), who said that in the neighbor- hood of Mille Lacs were many other lakes, whence issue several rivers, on the banks of which live the Issati, Nadoues- sans Tinthonha (Teton), Oudebathon (Wahpeton) River people, Chongaske- thon (Sisseton), and other tribes, all com- priseil under the name Nadouessiou. This locates the tribe in 1680 in the vicinity of Mille Lacs, not in the region of Rainy lake, as Hennepin's map appears to place them. In the Prise de Possession of May 1689,they are mentionedas living, the greater part of them, in the neigh- borhood of the ]Mdewakanton, in the interior n. e. of the Mississippi. Du Luth, who was in that region as early as July 1679, found them in the vicinity of the Wahpeton. The statement that a part of the tribe was in the vicinity of Mille Lacs at the time of Hennepin's visit (1680) in- dicates that the division into the two bands had already taken place. Pike states that the two divisions, the Kahra and the Sisseton proper, hunted eastward to the Mississippi and up that river as far as Crow Wing r. Long (Exped. St Peters R., 1824) names the divisions the Miakechakesa and Kahra, giving as the number of the latter 1,500, and that of theformer 1,000. Lewisand Clark (1804) located them on the headwaters of Min- nesota r. Schermerhorn, following Pike, said they were on the upper parts of Red r. of L. Winnipeg, and that they rove
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