For further reference to this matter see Wis. Hist. Coll., Vol. XI, and also the same Society’s Proceedings, for 1895.
[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.