All Native American & French in Ottawa

Many of the tribes living around the Great Lakes were threatened by the Iroquois, who sought to dominate the fur trade. Some of the Miami living near Green Bay in the mid-17th century, moved in 1683 to the Illinois River valley to join LaSalle’s confederacy, which they believed afforded protection from the Iroquois. The confederacy included the Illinois, Miami, Wea, Read more...