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45o wisconsin historical collections the attack my father was a peaceable man he did not like to be at war with the whites so our people did not go i was only a boy then i think the first time i ever went to green bay was when i was eight years old i went to visit my aunts who were living there i went twice to see them during what the whites call the winnebago war at prairie du chien in 1827 i was living with my people on little green lake there was among us no general hatred of the whites red bird had some private revenge to satisfy and murdered the white family at the prairie of his own accord we were all very sorry we had no sympathy with him we felt that he was a bad indian he tried to get the rest of his tribe into trouble i have heard of some white people who enjoy getting their neighbors into any trouble they have themselves got into there was no feeling among the rest of the tribe over red bird's con duct except that of anger we willingly gave him up to the whites.1 during the black hawk war 1832 i lived at the port age when we heard of the trouble i wanted very much to go and join the americans i knew the officers at fort winnebago and was friendly to them but my friends got around me and said that the sacs were friends of the win nebagoes so i was persuaded not to go in july ten families of us started out on our summer's hunt on the roche-a-cri river we had got as far as friendship when ochpiyoka the spaniard),2 one of our friends came into camp much excited and told us what had happened down in the illinois country saying that the sacs were headed our way we had gone out on our hunt in strong numbers knowing that the war was going on 1 see account of this uprising in wis hist colls pp 253 et seq — ed f " l'espagnol or the spaniard was a menomonee chief having his village almost opposite where mauston is now situated — wis hist colls vii p 351 he fought under the british in 1812-15 at the attack on mackinaw he contested with yellow dog the credit of killing major holmes — id iii p 270 ed
Object Description
| Language | English |
| Pagination | xi, 515 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Page | Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume XIII (1895) |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Format-Digital | XML |
| Source Creation Date | 1895 |
| Identifier-Digital | whcvXIII0000 |
| Description | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, vol. 13, includes the following articles: Events at Prairie du Chien previous to American occupation, by Alfred Edward Bulger; The Bulger papers; Last days of the British at Prairie du Chien, by Alfred Edward Bulger; Papers of James Duane Doty; The territorial census for 1836; Notes on early lead mines in the Fever (or Galena) River region; Significance of the lead and shot trade in early Wisconsin, by Orin Grant Libby; Chronicle of the Helena shot-tower, by Orin Grant Libby; The Belgians of northeast Wisconsin, by Xavier Martin; The story of Chequamegon Bay; Historic sites on Chequamegon Bay, by Chrysostom Verwyst; Arrival of American troops at Green Bay in 1816; Narrative of Spoon Decorah; Narrative of Walking Cloud; and Population of Brown County, June 1830. |
| Article Title | Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume XIII (1895) |
| Volume | Vol. 13 |
| Series | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ; v. 13 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
Description
| Language | English |
| Page | 450 |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Format-Digital | JP2 |
| Source Creation Date | 1895 |
| Identifier-Digital | whcvXIII0474 |
| Author | Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913 |
| Page Type | Article |
| Volume | Vol. 13 |
| Series | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ; v. 13 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
| Full Text | 45o wisconsin historical collections the attack my father was a peaceable man he did not like to be at war with the whites so our people did not go i was only a boy then i think the first time i ever went to green bay was when i was eight years old i went to visit my aunts who were living there i went twice to see them during what the whites call the winnebago war at prairie du chien in 1827 i was living with my people on little green lake there was among us no general hatred of the whites red bird had some private revenge to satisfy and murdered the white family at the prairie of his own accord we were all very sorry we had no sympathy with him we felt that he was a bad indian he tried to get the rest of his tribe into trouble i have heard of some white people who enjoy getting their neighbors into any trouble they have themselves got into there was no feeling among the rest of the tribe over red bird's con duct except that of anger we willingly gave him up to the whites.1 during the black hawk war 1832 i lived at the port age when we heard of the trouble i wanted very much to go and join the americans i knew the officers at fort winnebago and was friendly to them but my friends got around me and said that the sacs were friends of the win nebagoes so i was persuaded not to go in july ten families of us started out on our summer's hunt on the roche-a-cri river we had got as far as friendship when ochpiyoka the spaniard),2 one of our friends came into camp much excited and told us what had happened down in the illinois country saying that the sacs were headed our way we had gone out on our hunt in strong numbers knowing that the war was going on 1 see account of this uprising in wis hist colls pp 253 et seq — ed f " l'espagnol or the spaniard was a menomonee chief having his village almost opposite where mauston is now situated — wis hist colls vii p 351 he fought under the british in 1812-15 at the attack on mackinaw he contested with yellow dog the credit of killing major holmes — id iii p 270 ed |