THE WINNEBAGO TRIBE.


region erected into the state of Wisconsin. There is no contem-
porary narrative inspired by Nicolet which gives a hint of the
place at which this council was held, or the location of the Winne-
bago village, which was the objective point of Nicolet's voyage.
The habitat of the Winnebago during this period must therefore
be sought from other narratives and maps, and these clearly show
the Winnebago village of 1634, and for 200 years thereafter to
have been at the foot of Lake Winnebago, and from the later
accounts, which give a more exact locus in quo, on Doty island,
in what is now the cities of Menasha and Neenah, on the Fox
river, yet on the shore of Lake Winnebago.
It has been heretofore stated that Champlain's map of 1632,
made two years before Nicolet's visit, named the "Nation des
Puans" on  "Lac des Puans."  Also the map of Jean Boisseau's
of 1643, which is found in Lennox Library in New York, and
published in "Jesuit Relations," has "La Nation des Puans,"
on "Lac des Puans," which discharges through "R. des Puans."
The next map to mention the tribe is that of Marquette.  His
journal of the famous voyage through the Fox river valley was
published in Paris by Thevenot in 1681, with his real map of the
voyage. It places the "Puans" village at the foot of Lake Win-
nebago. The master of this voyage was Joliet, and his map also
places the "Puans" village at the foot of Lake of the Winnebago.
Father Hennepin also places the word "Oeitagan" against Lake
Winnebago on his map, dated 1698. He was aso a traveler among
them and this is his attempt to spell their own name, rendered by
Charlevoix at Otchagras. The maps so far mentioned are all of
the Nicolet century, while those of the next century, which show
the village, all place it at the foot of the lake, which always bore
their name.
The name of the lake as "the Lake of the Puans" has some
value in identification of the site of the Winnebago Village. As
nearly all the early voyagers approached it from Green Bay they
named Green Bay "La Bay des Puans," because it was the way
to reach the Puans. Charlevoix has said that it was the Puans
of Lake of the Puans who "transferred" their name to the Bay.
Leaving the Bay in the progress of their voyage they entered
the " Riviere des Puans."   This was the earliest name of Fox
river. It is found on the earliest maps as mentioned above. It
is found on the maps of La Hontan of 1709, as "Riviere des
Puants," and also on another map by the same author of 1709
as "R. des Puants." Allouez in 1670, in his journal refers to

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