[84] The Mission of the Holy Ghost--at La Pointe, on the isle
_Wauga-ba-me_--(winding view) in the beautiful bay of Cha-quam-egon
--was founded by the Jesuits about the year 1660. Father Rene Menard was
probably the first priest at this point. After he was lost in the
wilderness, Father Glaude Allouez permanently established the mission in
1665. The famous Father Marquette, who took Allouez's place, Sept. 13,
1669, writing to his superior, thus describes the Dakotas: "The
Nadouessi are the Iroquois of this country, beyond La Pointe, _but less
faithless, and never attack till attacked._ Their language is entirely
different from the Huron and Algonquin. They have many villages but are
widely scattered. They have very extraordinary customs. They principally
use the calumet. They do not speak at great feasts, and when a stranger
arrives give him to eat of a wooden fork, as we would a child. All the
lake tribes make war on them, but with small success. They have false
oats (wild rice,) use little canoes, _and keep their word strictly_."
_Neill's Hist. Minn._, p. III.
[85] _Michabo_ or _Manni-bozo_--the Good Spirit of the Algonkins.
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