Prehistoric Aborigines 379 



the Cherokces and some cognate subtribes, out of Illinois and Ohio 

 and into Virginia and North Carolina, where they were met by De 

 Soto and where they were still building mounds. 



Many of them escaped down the Ohio valley, and at its mouth 

 they divided, a part of them returning again to Minnesota and to Iowa, 

 and there establishing, or renewing, the dynasty of the mound builder, 

 this later phase being distinctively called the Minnesota dynasty. It 

 is this migration that brought the present Sioux into the northwest, 

 an event which is believed to have been not more than 500 years ago. 



After this the Ojibwa (Algonquian) stock made another success- 

 ful raid on the Dakota tribes, and gradually pushed them again fur- 

 ther south, and recaptured the northern half of the state of Minne- 

 sota. This last movement is verified by some historic facts, and by 

 abundant tradition. It was during this war that the whites appeared 

 on the scene. The conclusion of the paper summarized the human 

 migratons that have passed over Minnesota as follows: 



1. Algcnquian occupancy from the southwest. (During this 

 epoch the Ohio mound builders flourished.) 



2. General hostile movement against the mound builders by the 

 Algonquian (Kilistino?) tribes from the northwest, resulting in the 

 destruction of the Ohio dynasty. 



3. Fugitive mound builders return up the Mississippi river and 

 possess the country under the second, or Minnesota, dynasty, occupy- 

 ing the southern part of the state, say 500 years ago. 



4. The Sioux again driven away, at least from the northern part 

 of the state, by the Algonquian stock, 150 years ago. 



5. Aryan civilization. 



