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!
After the Americans maintained
an army post at Prairie du Chien, which was after the war of 1812, the
Menomonee often visited there and frequently wintered on the Mississippi
river.
In 1836 such a band was visiting there, when in a drunken
fray a Menomonee had killed a Winnebago. By the savage law he must either
be given up or his life must be taken by his own tribe. A council was held
and instead of the Menomonee the chief of the tribe offered them whiskey.
The Winnebago could not resist the temptation and ten gallons of whiskey
was produced which was drank by all the parties over the grave. The first
Menomonee chief mentioned was Kioulouskoio, in 1695, since which time
numerous celebrated names have sprung up in the tribe, eight or ten
holding sway at the same time.
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