[82] Daniel Greysolon du Luth (Lhut) was for a time commandant of the
northwest. Coming to Canada as an officer from France about 1676 he
conducted an expedition against the Sioux in 1678 and a year later took
formal possession of their country for France. He spent several years as
an explorer and fur trader, and in 1689 returned to the St. Lawrence.
His death occurred in 1710. See MINN. HIST. COLL., Vol. I. His name is
spelled Du Luth, Du Lut, Dulhut, De Luth, Dulud and Du Luhd in the old
documents. The city of Duluth, St. Louis Co., Minnesota, founded in
1856, was named after the explorer at the suggestion of Rev. J. G.
Wilson of Logansport, Indiana. See Stennett, HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN OF
THE PLACE NAMES CONNECTED WITH THE C. & N. W. R. R., ETC., Chic., 1908.
[83] Foster’s interjection.
[84] Foster’s interjection.
[85] See note 49.
[86] See the treaty of 1824 (Appendix B) for migration. Maximilian says
that “the Ioway [Iowa] dwelt on the Grand river till 1827, when they
removed to the Little Platte river.” Clark’s reprint of the TRAVELS,
Vol. I, p. 245. Later on in the same volume, he writes of this tribe:
“On the northern bank, seven miles up that [the Little Platte] river,
are the villages of the Ioway Indians....” No doubt the tribe had
journeyed in this direction after the troubles of the Black Hawk War in
1832.
[87] See Hornaday, THE EXTERMINATION OF THE AMERICAN BISON, 1887, and
Allen, THE AMERICAN BISONS, LIVING AND EXTINCT, 1876.
[88] In 1876. Marquette found them in 1673 at the mouth of the Des
Moines river. This, as will be seen, was their first location.
[89] Report of Albert J. Vaughan, sub-agent of the Great Nemaha agency,
published in the REP. OF THE COMM. OF IND. AFFAIRS, 1849, p. 143,
Washington, 1850. Vaughan says, “According to the census of last spring
payment of annuities, the Iowas numbered 802, and the Sacs and Foxes
128”. (_Communicated in a letter from Mr. F. W. Hodge, Chief of the
Bureau of American Ethnology_).
[90] This should be 1702.—ED.
[91] The MEMORIAL here referred to is in manuscript and among the
archives of the government, at Paris. It is one of the most valuable
documents on the subject of early nations and country of the
Mississippi, and portions of it have been transcribed and translated for
the MINN. HIST. SOC. COLL., Vol. I, p. 279, 1850-56 (reprint 1902). The
full title of the work is as follows: MEMORIALL OF M. D’IBERVILLE UPON
THE COUNTRY OF THE MISSISSIPPI, THE MOBILE AND ITS ENVIRONS, THEIR
RIVERS, INHABITANTS AND THE COMMERCE WHICH COULD BE CARRIED ON IN LESS
THAN FIVE OR SIX YEARS IN SETTLING IT. The quotation by Foster, given
above, has been proof read to correspond with the translation here
mentioned, and includes only the line preceding the brackets.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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