Mascouten Indians


An Algonquian tribe. The name means "Little prairie

people." They were known to the French as Nation du feu. First

mentioned by Champlain in 1616; Perrot visited their village, near Fox

River, Wis., some time before 1669. They were also seen by Allouez in

1670, and by Marquette in 1673. Always a small tribe, they disappeared

entirely before the end of the eighteenth century. =Bib.=: Hodge,

Handbook of American Indians.



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