Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Indian Tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley and Region of the Great Lakes, Vol. 1: As Described by Nicolas Perrot, French Commandant in the Northwest; Bacqueville De La Potherie, French Royal Commissioner to Canada; Morrell Marston, American Army Officer; And Thomas Forsyth, United States Agent at Fort Armstrong
Among the subjects of perennial interest, not only to historical students but to the general reading public, are the customs, character, and beliefs of the North American Indians, and their relations with the white peoples who have possessed themselves of the vast territories once occupied by those aborigines. The present work is devoted to these subjects, its text presenting old French and American memoirs by writers who, having spent many years among the Indians, were most competent and reliable as authority on aboriginal life. The Memoire of Nicolas Perrot (written probably during 1680 to 1718, but not published until 1864), and La Potherie's Histoire de l'Amerique septentrionale (first published in 1716), have long been known to historical writers, and often cited by them; but these works are largely unknown to the reading public, as they long since passed out of print, and have never been published in English. Yet they are original sources of prime importance to students of Indian history and life; for Perrot, the most noted of the Canadian coureurs de bois, spent most of his life among the western tribes, and was a keen and shrewd observer - while it is his lost memoirs on Indian affairs which, as the best authorities surmise furnished material for most of La Potherie's second volume (the part of his Histoire which is used in the present work).
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