While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Others not named who were
engaged in the McKay capture of Prairie du Chien were Chiefs Ma cha nah or
"the Hairy Hand," Kish kou nau Kati Hom or "the Cutting Off," "Yellow
Cloud" and Wau nau ko after whom Winneconne is named.
Another chief was Lapone, with a small tribe in 1836
located in a village named Waukau across the Fox river from Delhi, from
which the village of Waukau gets its name.
The first missionary among the Menomonee was Alouez in
1669, since which date there have been more or less, always under the
teaching of some good priest, among whom have been Andre, Marquette and
others, and later Mazzuchelli established a school for them, and Rev. Van
Den Broecle had his mission for them at Little Chute They now have their
churches, schools and missions; yet still the weird songs of the sighing
winds through the shaded forest with its carpet of trailing arbutus and
the sun and moon and all the savage superstition inherited from untold
ages, by the children of the wild woods, retains its spirit influence over
them, and while they chant their chatechism they still propitiate the
Manitou of the red man with offerings of tobacco and presents and make
provision for the journey of the dead to the happy hunting grounds.
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