How the Winnebago First Came into Contact with the French and the Origin of the Decora Family
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- 17 century
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The Ho-Chunk long recalled their first encounters with the Europeans who arrived so unexpectedly in the seventeenth century. Their memories of these meetings were passed down verbally from parent to child for eight or nine generations, and told to visiting anthropologist Paul Radin during the years 1908-1913
- Creator
Radin, Paul, 1883-1959
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
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- U.S. Government Publications
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ; 37th - Publisher
- U.S. Government Printing Office
- Subjects
- French Americans
Native Americans
Tobacco
Family
Implements, utensils, etc
Adolescence
Explorers
Rites and ceremonies
Firearms
Weapons
Ho-Chunk - Type
- text
- Language
- English
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- Radin, Paul, 1883-1959. How the Winnebago First Came into Contact with the French and the Origin of the Decora Family. 17 century. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/42096. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- Radin, Paul, 1883-1959, (17 century) How the Winnebago First Came into Contact with the French and the Origin of the Decora Family. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/42096
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- Radin, Paul, 1883-1959. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/42096>.