A4 SUNDAY, August 25, 2013 HISTORY The Dunn County News

SCENES OF YESTERYEAR The 1825 Treaty’s Wisconsin results their names after leaving to meet to determine the to define the territory held extensive areas of land John Russell, a local New York state for actual borders of their ter- by the Indians, the knowl- from the Indians. photographer, writes a Wisconsin. One other ritories. edge and acceptance of Eventually, there was a weekly column for The tribe from New York was It is interesting to note ownership of specific ter- need for Indian reserva- Dunn County News. He is the Huron tribe, who that three years earlier, in ritory opened the oppor- tions to retain ownership curator emeritus of the headed for the hospitable 1822, James Lockwood and tunities for white oppor- of fragments of their tra- Dunn County Historical and future state of Joseph Rolette, both for- tunists to purchase often ditional lands. Society. JOHN RUSSELL Wisconsin after a tremen- mer competitive fur For THE NEWS dous loss to the rival traders living in Prairie du in 1649. They Chien, joined in partner- It is a little-known fact first settled on the shore of ship to get permission that the area of land and Lake Pepin but eventually from Dakota Chief lakes that is called moved into the Ashland Wabasha to cut the white “Wisconsin” was home for area until the early 1660s, pine on the Red Cedar more than 30 American when they moved to the River at the mouth of Indian tribes in the history Detroit area. today’s Wilson Creek in of the United States. No By the mid-1700s, there Menomonie. Hardin other state comes close to had been much reforma- Perkins then built the first equal Wisconsin in that tion in the settling of dam and mill on Indian number nor in the compli- Wisconsin. There were land on what had been cations arising from the five basic territories held part of the “road of war” fact that among that num- by five tribes and one dis- between the Dakota and ber there were at least puted area that encom- for the previous three linguistic stocks: passed all of the present 300 years or more. Algonquian, Iroquoian and area of Dunn County. Perhaps this was the inci- Siouan. Territories maintained by dent that triggered the The majority of Indians five tribes, the Chipeway, need to gather all of the spoke Algonquian. Among the Monomonie, the Indian tribes in the exten- that group were the Ottigaumies, the Saukeis sive surrounding area to Ojibwe, formerly called and the Winnebago. organize the Indian and the Chippewa, and the There was one area that establish the lines deter- Kickapoo, Illinois, included the Chippewa mining the “ownership” of Munsee, Mahican, and Red Cedar rivers, in the lands held by them. , Miaml, which were many series of And so it happened that This is a copy of the map of Wisconsin drawn by early explorer Jonathan Carver in the 1770s. Peoria, Mascouten, battles between the Santee on Aug. 19, 1825, 140 It depicts the future state of Wisconsin and the locations of territory held by traditional tribes Noquet, , Dakota and Ojibwe tribes. Indian chiefs representing as well as the disputed area that encompassed the “Road of War” that was located between Sauk, Stockbrdge, It was said that over the the , Sac, Fox, the Red Cedar and Chippewa Rivers. Wyandot and some sub- years there were battles Menominee, Ioway, divisions. between the two rivals at Winnebago and the Then there were tribes every turn of the rivers. Anishinaabeg, the that spoke Siouan, and For 20 miles or more on Chippewa (Ojibwe) and included the , the land located between the Council of Three Fires Missouri, Ottawa, the the two rivers was called of Chippewa, Ottawa and Dakota, the Santee Dakota the “Road of War.” Potawatomi, gathering and the Winnebago, the Fifty years later, in 1825, together at Prairie du latter now known by their a suggestion was made by Chien to establish the traditional name, the Ho- white advisers who boundary lines and own- Chunk. thought it was time for the ership of their lands pro- There were the Oneida Indians living in their claimed on Feb. 6, 1826. and Seneca Indians who respective traditional areas As a result of this his- spoke Iroquoian, hanging in the future states of torical meeting and its on to the language and Wisconsin and Minnesota, equally historic agreement Tired of the HOME LOAN RUNAROUND? At Citizens State20616342Bank we guarantee you a 24 hour loan decision upon the receipt of a complete application* or we will credit you $500 toward your3 Xclosing 4.00costs at closing!* MENOMONIE OFFICE MORTGAGE(715) 2 35RATES-3164 ELMWOOD OFFICE HUDSON OFFICE WOODVILLE OFFICE CITIZENS(715) 639-5411 (71 5STATE) 386-9050 (715) 698-2411

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