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Contents Editor’s Introduction vii Author’s Preface 3 1. General Account of the Present Local Position and Numbers of the Ojibways,and Their Connection with Other Tribes  2. Totemic Division of the O-jib-ways  3. Origin of the Ojibways  4. Emigration of the Ojibways from the Shores of the Atlantic Ocean,to Their Occupation of the Area of Lake Superior  5. The Ojibway Town at La Pointe  6. Dispersion of the Ojibways from the Island of La Pointe  7. Era of the Discovery  8. The Immediate Consequence of Their First Intercourse with the White Race  9. Account of the First French Trading Posts Built on Lake Superior  10. Wars of the Ojibways with the Iroquois and O-dug-am-ees, or Foxes  11. Taking of Mille Lacs by the Ojibways  12. Occupation of the St.Croix River Country by the Ojibways  13. The Country about the Source of the Mississippi  14. Progress of the Ojibways on the Upper Mississippi  15. Occupation of the Wisconsin and Chippewa River Valleys by the Ojibways  Schenck bk p i-xxiv 1-318_Layout 1 5/13/11 10:54 AM Page v v 16. Ending of the French Supremacy  17. Commencement of British Supremacy  18. Grand Expedition of the Dakotas to the Sources of the Mississippi,against the Ojibways  19. Progress of the Ojibways on the Upper Mississippi  20. Closing of the War between the Ojibways and Odugamies  21. Origin of the Distinctive Name of Pillagers Applied to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibways; and the Era of Smallpox  22. Continued Progress of the Ojibways on the Upper Mississippi during the End of the Eighteenth Century  23. Attack of a War Party of Dakotas on a French Trading House, on the Upper Mississippi,in the Year 1783  24. The Sources of the Mississippi Become Open to the Enterprise of the Fur Trade,1792  25. John Baptiste Cadotte  26. Progress of the Ojibways on the Wisconsin and Chippeway Rivers  27. Ojibways of the Wisconsin and Chippeway Rivers  28. Affairs of the Ojibways on the St.Croix  29. The Pillagers  30. Ojibways of the Upper Mississippi  31. Ojibways of the Upper Mississippi  32. Ojibways of the Upper Mississippi  33. Endeavors of the British to Entice the Ojibways of Lake Superior and Mississippi to Join Their Arms in the War of 1812  34. A Brief Sketch of the Fur Trade and Fur Traders among the Ojibways from the Formation of the Northwest Company in 1787 to 1834  35. Events from 1818 to 1826  Appendixes  Works Cited  Index  Schenck bk p i-xxiv 1-318_Layout 1 5/13/11 10:54 AM Page vi vi ...

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