Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the Actual Source of This River: Embracing an Exploratory Trip Through the St. Croix and Burntwood (or Broule) RiversSchoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the Actual Source of This River: Embracing an Exploratory Trip Through the St. Croix and Burntwood (or Broule) Rivers
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
Dakota Indians; Indians of North America -- Government relations; Minnesota -- Description and travel; Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration; Natural history -- Minnesota; Ojibwa Indians; Ojibwa language; Saint Croix River (Wis. and Minn.); United States -- Discovery and exploration
_Ascent of the St. Croix above the falls.—Direct the burning of
illegal trading houses.—Snake River.—Its chief, Pezhicki.—Notices
of Snake River.—Its population and trade.—A foreign trading
company formerly located here.—Effects upon the Indian intercourse
of the present day.—Anecdote of the former mode of using rum
and tobacco.—Kettle Rapids.—Shell River.—A hunting party of
Chippewa boys.—Pokanokuning, or Yellow River.—Its population
and trade.—Notices of its natural history.—Shells.—Prairie
squirrel.—Widow of a murdered Indian, called the Little
Frenchman, declines having her son put to school.—Reach the
forks of the St. Croix.—Notice of the Namakagon Branch.—The
chief, Kabamappa.—Women’s Portage.—The Sturgeon Dam.—Kabamappa’s
village.—Upper St. Croix Lake._
CHAPTER III.
_Character of the St. Croix.—Its productiveness in wild
rice.—Population and trade.—Condition of the Indians, and their
prospect.—Portage to the Burntwood.—Marine sand formation.—Bass
lake.—Character of the Burntwood river.—Arrival at its discharge
into Fond du Lac of Lake Superior.—Indian friends.—Close of
the Narrative.—Brief general remarks on the condition of the
Chippewas.—Traits of character and government.—The institution of
the Totem.—Tale of the origin of White Fish._
APPENDIX
I. NATURAL HISTORY
II. INDIAN LANGUAGE
III. OFFICIAL REPORTS
NARRATIVE
OF AN EXPEDITION THROUGH THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI,
TO ITASCA LAKE.
CHAPTER I.
_Introductory observations on the sources of the
Mississippi.—Pike’s expedition in 1805, for exploring its course,
and ascertaining its origin.—The expedition of Gov. Cass,
directed to the same objects, in 1820.—Its extent, termination,
and results.—Renewed efforts to ascend to its source, by the
author, in 1831.—Diverted to the unexplored country lying in
the area between Lake Superior and the Upper Mississippi, south
of St. Anthony’s Falls.—Summary of the route.—The St. Croix and
Chippewa Rivers.—Massacre of the Monomonees at Prairie du Chien,
in 1831.—Mine country.—Return to the Straits of St. Mary._
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