Sioux Indians
A western tribe, occupying the country between the west
end of Lake Superior and the head waters of the Mississippi when French
explorers and missionaries first went among them. Radisson and Chouart
wintered among them in 1661-1662; they were visited by Du Lhut about
1678; and constant references are made to the tribe in the Jesuit
Relations of the seventeenth century. Fierce and implacable by nature,
they were rightly known as the Iroquois of the West. They are described
in the narratives of Hennepin and other early writers. =Index=: (Sir Frederick Haldimand era)
Offer to attack Ottawas, Chippewas, and Pottawattamies, 148. =Bib.=:
Jesuit Relations, ed. by Thwaites; Carver, Travels through the
Interior Part of North America; Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes of the
United States; Catlin, North American Indians; Hodge, Handbook of
American Indians.