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Archive for April, 2007

» Historical Accuracy

I received an email from someone who questioned a particular section of my Otoe-Missouria History page. I recreated our email dialogue here:
S. Foust wrote:
Access Geneology internet site article on Otoe history says that French explorer LaSalle in 1680 met 2 Otoe Chiefs in present day Illinois. Those chiefs told LaSalle of journeying far enough west […]

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» La Salle’s Contact with the Otoe

It is not my intent to document every historical reference to the Otoe and Missouria tribes. Many of those references have been compiled in the Garland series book, Otoe and Missouria, which is cited at the bottom of this page, and by Alan H. Hartley for his dictionary slips research. I wrote this article in […]

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