_Nadouecioux_ was
a name given the Dakotas generally by the early French traders and the
Ojibways. See _Shea's Hennepin's Description of Louisiana_, pp. 203 and
375. The villages of the Dakotas were not permanent towns. They were
hardly more than camping grounds, occupied at intervals and for longer
or shorter periods, as suited the convenience of the hunters; yet there
were certain places, like Mille Lacs, the Falls of St. Anthony, _Kapoza_
(near St. Paul), _Remnica_ (where the city of Red Wing now stands), and
_Keuxa_ (or _Keoza_) on the site of the city of Winona, so frequently
occupied by several of the bands as to be considered their chief
villages respectively.
Mr. Neill, usually very accurate and painstaking, has fallen into an
error in his prefatory notes to the last edition of his valuable
_History of Minnesota_. Speaking of DuLuth, he says:
"He appears to have entered Minnesota by way of the Pigeon or St. Louis
River, and to have explored where no Frenchman had been, and on July 2,
1679, was at _Kathio_ (_Kathaga_) perhaps on Red Lake or Lake of the
Woods, which was called 'the great village of the Wadouessioux,' one
hundred and twenty leagues from the _Songaskicons_ and _Houetepons_ who
were dwellers _in the Mille Lac region_.
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