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Chap I

When they formed their winter camp, might be looked upon as their most permanent abode; but this was never to any degree fixed for during the absence of the tribe, on a summer or fall hunt, it was just as likely as not to be destroyed, if in any substantial form, by a roving band of the same or another nation. The Ojibway were more fixed residents; they built wigwams of bark, and usually lived in villages, some of them quite large, and of a permanent character. Lac du Flambeau in Wisconsin, Sandy Lake in Minnesota La Pointe on Chagouamigon in Wisconsin; and Sault St Marie in Michigan are points where the villages of the Ojibway have existed for centuries. The white explorer reached the Dakotas first through the Ojibway country and knew the name (Sioux) The "Dakotas" styled themselves "Dakota" but the Ojibway called them, Nadouessioux or "our enemies," or sometimes "Bwan." From the first name the white man soon formulated "Sioux." The Dakotas called the Ojibway Hahatowwan. "Dwellers at the Falls." as they discovered the Ojibway at the Sault St Marie, or fall, in the river at the mouth of Lake Superior. The origin of the Indians is shrouded in darkness and uncertainty, they possess no written records and at the present writing, their traditions are sinking rapidly into oblivion, especially is this true as civilization advances and the indian is assimilated into the great body of the American people. Of the origin of the Dakotas we know but little. Of the Ojibway, or Chippeway, we have more information. The traditions held by the sages of the Ojibway tribe are to the effect that the nation in the days when the earth was young, travelled eastward till they reached the great water, the Atlantic Ocean, and there they met six beings who came up out of the