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The Fox Wars, Volume 211: The Mesquakie Challenge to New France

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The Fox Wars, Volume 211: The Mesquakie Challenge to New France - Edmunds, R David, and Peyser, Joseph L
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"The Fox Wars" relates the saga of the Fox (or Mesquakie) Indians' struggle to maintain their identity in the face of colonial New France during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The Foxes occupied central Wisconsin, where for a long time they had warred with the Sioux and, more recently, had opposed the extension of the French firearm-and-fur trade with their western enemies. Caught between the Sioux anvil and the French hammer, the Foxes enlisted other tribes' support and maintained their independence until the late ...

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The Fox Wars, Volume 211: The Mesquakie Challenge to New France 1993, University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN-13: 9780806125510

Hardcover