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Indians

In the more settled portions of the Territory, but few Indians are now to be found; most of them having removed to the north, or to the west side of the Mississippi. Occasionally a band of Menomonies take up their winter quarters on the head branches of Rock river, and other places, and bring their peltries to Milwaukee for sale. The Chippewas are the most numerous, occupying the country bordering on Lake Superior, and about the source of the Mississippi. The Sioux or Dacotas, whose country lies principally on the west side of the Mississippi occasionally cross that stream and occupy a portion of our territory at the north.

There with a few Winnebagos, and an occasional Pottawatamie make up the tribes of Indians occupying or inhabiting Wisconsin. The Stockbridge and Brothertown Indians on the east side of Lake Winnebago, and the Oneidas, a few miles west of Green Bay emigrated from New York about the year 1833. They are in character and habits much more like the whites than like the wild Indians, [being] they are sober, honest, and industrious farmers, and occupy[ing] fixed places of abode. The Brothertowns,

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