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Conclusion of the three part series. Jonathan Lantz Buffalo, a Meskwaki (or Fox to the French) Native American, writes of Etnataek in the 1980 Wisconsin Historical Journal: “For the record, I just want to announce from the tribe, we won the war, because today you see Meskwaki. But if you went to France, there is no French king, or French […]

Second in a three part series. DeVilliers hated the Foxes. And he was anxious to be rid of this perpetual scourge on the peaceful intentions of the French traders and Catholic missionaries of New France. Lieutenant Nicolas Antoine Coulon de Villiers, the Commandant at the French post on the St. Joseph River near present day Niles, Michigan had just received […]

Part one of a three part series. Way up near the headwaters of the Sangamon River, just a couple of miles south and east of Arrowsmith along Mclean County Road 1000 North stands a small reddish granite monument. It’s easy to miss if you’re not looking for it, and it stands silently in a bucolic setting among the windmills and […]

  OK February, I’ll try reasoning with you. I’m dejectedly staring outside at the Sangamon River flowing past without me on it. It’s just too cold! So the self help books I’m reading to cheer myself up during these dull days suggest I should try to focus on the positive; try to keep myself on the sunny side of the […]