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Cartwright, Carol Lohry; Shaffer, Scott; Waller, Randal / City on the Rock River : chapters in Janesville's history
(1998)
1. Prehistoric and historic Native American occupation, pp. 1-42
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French isolated the Fox by enticing their allies, one by one, to abandon hostilities. The Fox were almost entirely eliminated in 1731 by a combined French and allied Indian force. Those who survived fled to the Sauk. King George's War (1744-1748) and the French and Indian War (1756-1763) led to additional changes in the Wisconsin area's Indian settlement pattern. Some groups moved to the Green Bay area to be closer to trading posts, while others, including the Potawatomi, moved into a relatively unused area along the western shore of Lake Michigan. As British traders moved into the Ohio Valley and the Illinois country, American Indian groups in the southern Wisconsin area turned their attention to the new trading center of St. Louis. At this time the Rock River most likely saw an increase in fur-bearing canoe traffic. At the beginning of the American Revolution, the American Indians between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River were divided into pro-British, pro-American, and indifferent or undecided factions. While a few Potawatomi from the Milwaukee area and the northern-based Winnebago joined the British, the Rock River group of Winnebago sided with the Americans. As with past conflicts, the American Revolution caused changes in the settlement patterns of the western Great Lakes tribal groups. By 1800, the Rock River Winnebago were concentrated on Lake Koshkonong, on A portion of the Map of the Territories of Michigan and Ouisconsin, 1836. the Sugar River and Yahara River tributaries of the Rock River, and at various places where small streams converged with the Rock. An 1829 map of the "United States Lead Mines on the Upper Mississippi River" shows a Winnebago village at the mouth of Turtle Creek where the City of Beloit now stands. A second Winnebago village is located at the mouth of the Yahara, in northern Rock County, on an 1836 "Map of the Territories of Michigan and Ouisconsin." In his History of Rock County, Butterfield (1879) mentions several Winnebago villages in or near Rock County- Two of their villages were very favorably situated: one at the extreme northern Prehistoric and Historic Native American Occupation 15
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