Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society for the Year 1867Hill, A. J. (Alfred James)
History
Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society for the Year 1867
Hill, A. J. (Alfred James)
Minnesota -- History
Scattered through this book are accounts of the Sioux and other tribes
living in the region comprised within the limits of the present
Minnesota, and between it and Lake Michigan; and, in the same connection,
a description of the country of the former nation, and other geographical
information of more or less direct reference. As an interesting addition
to our knowledge of the _historical geography_ of this region, all
such notices have been carefully searched for, and are here given in a
collected form for the use of the Historical Society of Minnesota. The
extracts are purely in Perrot’s own words; no changes having been made,
even in the orthography. In addition, though trenching somewhat on the
domain of history, the episode of the disappearance of Father Menard is
included;—partly by reason of the new and interesting version of the
matter, and partly as showing that he should be considered as one of the
very earliest European visitors to Minnesota. Our first desideratum being
_accurate texts_, comments are best postponed; yet the notes of Father
Tailhan are so well considered that this compilation would be incomplete
without the insertion of such of them as correspond to the extracts from
the original work. The translator has also ventured upon two or three
explanatory remarks, or interpolations, of his own, distinguishable by
being inclosed within brackets; except the dates, which are the Father’s.
§ 2. _Extracts from his “Memoire sur les moeurs, &c.”_
Car le pays du nord est la terre du monde la plus ingratte, puisque, dans
quantitez d’endroits vous ne trouveriez pas un oiseau a chasser; on y
ramasse cependant des bluets dans les mois d’aout et de septembre[2]....
Les Chiripinons ou Assiniboualas sement dans leurs marais quelques folles
avoines qu’ils recueillent, mais ils n’en peuvent faire le transport chez
eux que dans le temps de la navigation(1)....
Les Kiristinons qui hantent souvent le long des bords du Lac Superieur et
des grandes rivieres, ou sont plus communement les elans(2)....
Les sauvages que l’on nomme Saulteurs [Chippewais] sont au sud du lac
Superieur ... ils ont pour voysins et amis les Scioux, sur les limites
desquels ils chassent, quand ils veulent....
Si on avance dans le nord, vers l’entree d’Ouisconching, l’hiver y est
extremement froid et long. C’est la ou les castors sont les meilleurs, et
le pays ou la chasse dure plus longtemps dans l’annee....
Ils tirent aussy l’hyver de dessous la glace dans les marests ou il y
a beaucoup de vase et peu d’eau, une certaine racine, ... mais elle
ne se trouve que dans la Louisianne, a quinze lieues plus haut que
l’entree d’Ouisconching. Les sauvages nomme en leur langue cette racine
Pokekoretch....
Mais les peuples plus avancez dans le nord, jusqu’a la hauteur
d’Ouisconching, n’ont plus de ces nefles, et ceux qui sont encore plus
loin manquent de ces noix semblables a celles de France....
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