"
To Daniel Greysolon DuLuth, and not to Father Hennepin, whom he rescued
from his captors at Mille Lacs, belongs the credit of the first
exploration of Minnesota by white men.
Father Hennepin was a self-conceited and self-convicted liar. Daniel
Greysolon DuLuth "was an honest man."
NOTES TO THE SEA-GULL
[1] _Kay-oshk_ is the Ojibway name for the sea-gull.
[2] _Gitchee_--great,--_Gumee_--sea or lake,--Lake Superior; also often
called _Ochipwe Gitchee Gumee_, Great lake (or sea) of the Ojibways.
[3] _Ne-me-Shomis_--my grandfather. "In the days of my grandfather" is
the Ojibway's preface to all his traditions and legends.
[4] _Waub_--white--_O-jeeg_--fisher, (a furred animal). White Fisher was
the name of a noted Ojibway chief who lived on the south shore of Lake
Superior many years ago. Schoolcraft married one of his descendants.
[5] _Ma-kwa_ or _mush-kwa_--the bear.
[6] The _Te-ke-nah-gun_ is a board upon one side of which a sort of basket
is fastened or woven with thongs of skin or strips of cloth. In this the
babe is placed and the mother carries it on her back. In the wigwam the
_tekenagun_ is often suspended by a cord to the lodge-poles and the
mother swings her babe in it.
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