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Notes on discovery of upper Mississippi River

 Collection — Huntington box 15a - folder 1
Identifier: 9082
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Handwritten notes by an unknown author. Notes mention Louis Hennepin, Robert Cavelier sieur de LaSalle, Jacques Marquette, Louis Joliet, Claude Jean Allouez, and Father Claude Dablon. Mention of the Huron, Ottawa and Sioux Indians, Mascouten or Asistieron, and Nation of Fire, as well. Two maps are also included. The maps were published in Paris by Thevenot in "Marquette's Map." The notes describe exploration of the river in the late 1600s.

Dates: [ca. 1900].

Wahacankaduta letters of introduction from Fort Totten

 Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1
Identifier: 9258
Scope and content Two letters of introduction regarding Wahacankaduta a son of a chief who lived at the Devils Lake Reservation. The letters were collected by Mrs. O.C. Gray from Sunkaitewakan the son of Wahacankaduta. The letters are from Fort Totten in Dakota Territory. One is dated August 1, 1873 from William H. Forbes. The other is from September 30, 1873 from James McLaughlin. The letters state that the bearer is a soldier of the Cut Head Indian band from the Grand River Agency in Missouri, who is a good...
Dates: 1873.

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