Minnesota Native Americans, 1823

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William Keating, a professor of mineralogy and chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote a two-volume narrative of a 1823 scientific expedition in what later became Minnesota. This database is the first volume of the collection. Commissioned by the War Department, the expedition traveled up the Minnesota River, around Lake Winnepeg, and then east to Lake Superior. This volume pays special attention to Native Americans of the area, including the Potawatomi, Miami, Sauk, Menomone (Menominee), Winnebago, and Dacota (Sioux). It provides descriptions of cultural practices, beliefs, health, and physical attributes of these several tribes. For researchers Minnesota Native Americans in the early nineteenth century, this can be an illuminating narrative.

Sources Library of Congress. Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Keating, William Hypolitus. Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of the St. Peter's River, etc., Vol. 1. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea, 1824.

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