HISTORY OF GREEN COUNTY. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
ABORIGINES OF GREEN COUNTY. 
 
As early as the year 1615, Samuel Champlain, 
while among the Huron Nation, at the head of 
the Georgian bay, in Canada, had heard of a 
tribe of Indians living many leagues beyond 
Lake Huron called the Fire Nation, or more ac- 
curately the Prairie Nation, better known at a 
later date as the Mascoutins. Their homes were 
upon the Fox river, of Green bay (where they 
had a village); and their territory extended 
southeastward, it is believed, as far as the site 
of the ,present city of Chicago. Their most 
northern village is thought to have been located 
within what are now the limits of Green Lake 
Co., Wis.-somewhere on Fox river between 
the present Berlin and Lake Puckaway. The 
nearest tribe to the Mascoutins down Fox river 
was the Winnebago, whose ancient seat was on 
the borders of the lake which now bears their 
name. In the immediate neighborhood of the 
Mascoutins, but up the river as is supposed, 
were located the Miamis and the Kickapoos. So 
far as is known, the valley of the Wisconsin 
river below the "portage" (now Portage, Co- 
lumbia Co., Wis.)was without inhabitants. The 
time we are now speaking of was before the 
year 1634-before any white man had set foot 
upon the soil of any portion of what is now the 
State of Wisconsin. It was a number of years 
subsequent to the date just mentioned, before 
the Sacs and Foxes made their appearance upon 
Fox river. Having thus described the inhabi- 
tants to the northward and northeastward of 
what is now Green county at the earliest known 
period, let us turn our attention to the tribe be- 
 
lieved to have been the occupiers of this imme- 
diate section of country, 250 years ago. 
There is a map extant, dated 1632, made by 
Samuel Champlain. On this map a Nation is 
located where was "a quantity of buffaloes." 
This Nation is conjectured to have been the 
Illinois. These Indians occupied the country 
to the south ward-the territory now constituting 
the State of Illinois; at least the northern por- 
tions of it, extending some distance into the 
present State of Wisconsin and including what 
is now Green county. The tribe of the Illini 
(or Illinois) was afterward driven beyond the 
Mississippi, but subsequently returned to the 
river which still bears their name.  But their 
hold upon the territory so far north as the south- 
ern part of the present Wisconsin, was undoubt- 
edly very weak at that period, and doubtless 
was soon entirely lost.  The Mascoutins and 
their kindred, the Kickapoos and Miamis, emi- 
grated south, and the whole region between the 
Fox and Wisconsin rivers on the north, and the 
Rock river on the south, including the present 
Green county, Was taken possession of by 
I.-THE SACS AND FOXES. 
The Sacs and Foxes came from the east to 
Fox river and then moved westward to the Wis- 
consin. Of all the tribes who have inhabited 
this State, they are the most noted.  The Sacs 
were sometimes called Sauks or Saukies, and the 
Foxes were frequently known as the Outagam- 
ies. They are of the Algonquin family, and 
are first mentoned in 1665, by Father Allouez, 
but as separate tribes.  Afterward, however, 
 
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