radin] 



WINNEBAGO ARCHEOLOGY 



77 



tions speak only of Green Bay as their original habitat. On the other 

 shorp of Green Bay were the Menominee, who likewise have no recol- 

 lection of having lived anywhere else. To the northeast, along Door 

 Peninsula, were the Potawatomi, unquestionably intruders, who had 

 come by way of Mackinaw. To the southwest lay the Sauk and Fox, 

 the closely related Kickapoo, and the enigmatic Mascoutin. Finally, 



Fig. 2.— map of WISCONSIN, SHOWING DISTRIBUTION OF CIRCULAR MOUNDS. 



to the south lay the Miami. Such seems to have been the distribu- 

 tion of the tribes around Green Bay and Lake Michigan at the fii-st 

 advent of the whites. Within 50 years of the landing of Nicollet the 

 places were entirely shifted. Winnebago villages are found scattered 

 all along the Fox River and Lake Winnebago, the Sauk and Fox and 

 Kickapoo are on their way farther south, and the Potawatomi are in 

 possession of the southern shore of Green Bay and the western shore 

 of Lake Michigan. Later still we find the Winnebago extending all 



