michelson: notes on the; fox Indians 487 



Jeune expressly says, "These are the names of a part of the 

 nations which are beyond the shores of the great river vSaint 

 Lawrence and of the great lakes of the Hurons on the North." 

 I think that the following extracts from the Jesuit Relation s'^'^ 

 may clarify the situation: "the Ousaki, and other Tribes, — who, 

 driven from their own abode, the Lands towards the South, near 

 Missilimakinac, have sought refuge at the head of the bay;" 

 "the Poteouatami, the Ousaki, and the nation of the Fork also 

 live here, but as foreigners, driven by their fear of the Iroquois 

 from their own territories, which lie between the Lake of the 

 Hurons and that of the Ilinois." [Both extracts are from the 

 Relation of i67o-'7i.] It is not at all likely that the Sauk (Ou- 

 saki) would have remained in the lower Michigan peninsula to 

 face the enemy alone after the Potawatomi and the Nation of 

 the Fork had been driven out. We must rather assume a gen- 

 eral exodus at the same time, including the Fox (the intimate 

 relations of the Sauk and Fox are well known). Hence C. W. 

 Butterfield^^ is surely in error regarding the Sauks, and prob- 

 ably the Foxes when he states that they had not migrated from 

 the east at the time of Nicolet's great voyage. According to a 

 note in the Jesuit Relations^^ the Skenchiohronon [Foxes, not 

 Neuters] are indicated on (S.) Sanson's map (of 1656) by Squen- 

 guioron. As a matter of fact the map has Squenquioron, at the 

 end of Lake Erie. If this identification be correct, ^^ the map is 

 probably inaccurate; we have seen above, that in 1640 Le Jeune 

 cites the Fox in connection with the Suak, Potawatomi, Kick- 

 apoo, Winnebago, and Crane Miami which certainly points the 

 region of Green Bay as their habitat. Now the differences 

 between the language of the Sauks and Foxes, and Kickapoos 

 for that matter, are very small; and if the ancient home of the 

 Sauks was in the lower Michigan peninsula (vide supra), so was 



^ Ed. Thwaitbs, 5S: 103 and 183, respectively. 

 ^^ John Nicolet. Discovery of the Northwest, 64: i88i. 

 48 Ed. Thwaites, 8: 302. 



4^ See the synonymy under the article Wyomingmthe: Handbook of American In- 

 dians for Beauchamp'6 conjecture regarding Scahentoarrhon. 



