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	Jacques Marquette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marie and at the Mission of the Holy Spirit in La Pointe, on Lake Superior, near the present-day town of Ashland, Wisconsin.
		Due to wars between the Hurons at La Pointe and the neighboring Dakota people, however, Father Marquette had to relocate to the Straits of Mackinac, where he informed his superiors about the rumored river, and requested permission to explore it.
		By this point they had encountered a number of natives carrying European trinkets, and they feared an encounter with explorers or colonists from Spain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacques_Marquette (547 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Illinois Indians
		An important confederacy of Algonquian tribes formerly occupying the greater part of the present state of Illinois, together with the adjacent portions of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Missouri, Their language, which was perhaps the softest of all Algonquian tongues, differed only dialectically from that of the Miami, their eastern neighbours and usual allies.
		So far as know, the first white man to make the acquaintance of the Illinois was the Jesuit pioneer Father Claude Allouez, who met them as visitors at his mission at La Pointe (Bayfield, Wis.) in 1667, and again at the Mascoutens village in southern Wisconsin three years later.
		In 1673 Marquette, in his voyage of discovery down the Mississippi, was welcomed by them about the mouth of the Des Moines in Iowa, and on his return passed through their villages on the Illinois, preaching as he went.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07660a.htm (1032 words)

	FLOWER DELIVERY Wisconsin WI \| Wisconsin FTD Florist \| Wisconsin Flower Shop
		COAT OF ARMS: Surrounding the US shield is the shield of Wisconsin, which is divided into four parts symbolizing agriculture, mining, navigation, and manufacturing.
		Flanking the shield are a sailor, representing labor on water, and a yeoman or miner, representing labor on land.
		One thing I hadn't counted on when I sent my girlfriend flowers, and that was the amount of gratitude she showed me. I mean, I've sent her flowers before and I've never gotten the kind of response I got when I sent your flowers to her.
	www.wesleyberryflowers.com /flowers_WI_wisconsin.html (1137 words)

	METIS CULTURE 1600-1639
		The Marquis de La Roche-Mesgouez, a Frenchman, who established an outpost for trading on Sable Island in 1598 had failed and only eleven survivors are returned to France in 1603.
		February 3: King Henry IV of France issued to Guillaume de la Mothe and Bertrand Rocque are granted a patent to trade the Atlantic coast of America between the Amazon River and Cape Breton in defiance of Spanish claims.
		La Pointe is located on the western end of Lake Kitchi-Gami (Lake Superior).
	www.agt.net /public/dgarneau/metis1a.htm (8728 words)

	History of Agriculture and Evolution
		There is also a point of no return at which the natural process of glaciation cannot be stopped by human efforts.
		The intellect is one entry point to the process outlined, and the easiest one to communicate.
		From this point of view, the threat of extinction appears as the invitation to change, to evolve.
	www.agevolution.com /histagev.htm (7228 words)

	THE MICHIGAN DIFFERENCE
		Case in point: the first recorded gift to the University of Michigan, aside from the land donated for a campus in Detroit and the later campus in Ann Arbor, is a highly-regarded German language encyclopedia set donated by a fur trader in 1840.
		While living in an American Fur Co. outpost in La Pointe on the western shore of Lake Superior, Borup was successful in asking his boss to provide a governess to teach his children.
		Borup eventually moved from the Wisconsin Territory to Minnesota, where he became a leading citizen of St. Paul.
	www.themichigandifference.org /leadersbest/winter2003 (563 words)

	The Mother of All Maritime Links: Page 24 of 47
		The Apostle Islands Windsled and Aviation Museum (A hybrid motor boat/sled for use on unstable ice, La Pointe, Wisconsin)
		The Door County Maritime Museum and Lighthouse Preservation Society (Cana Island Lighthouse, Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin)
		Neist Point Lighthouse (Isle of Skye, cottages for rent)
	www.boat-links.com /linklists/boatlink-24.html (2410 words)

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