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played an important role on the island in the first half of the nine- 

 teenth century. He died at La Pointe in 1837. 



In 1818 Lyman Marcus Warren and Truman Abraham Warren 

 arrived at La Pointe from vi^estern Massachusetts. Lyman Warren, 

 also an agent for the American Fur Company, married a daughter of 

 Michel Cadotte ; he died in 1847. His son, William Whipple Warren, 

 is our chief authority on the earlier history of the Chippewa.^ 



Although the wife of Lyman Warren was a Catholic, he invited 

 missionaries of his own church (Presbyterian) to La Pointe. For 

 the first time since the days of AUouez, missionaries were important 

 in the lives of the Ojibwa. In 1831 the Rev. Sherman Hall arrived 

 at La Pointe with his wife, who was a teacher. With them was their 

 friend, Mrs. John Campbell, who acted as interpreter.^ They built 

 their mission about a mile north of the French fort. This building 

 is now a part of an attractive summer hotel owned by the Messrs. 

 Salmon who showed the writer so much kindness. 



About 1830 the American Fur Company moved its village to the 

 place where the La Pointe of our own day stands. The old anchorage 

 (at the French Fort Site) was filling with sand, while the size of the 

 boats used was steadily increasing.^ 



In 1845 "^ost of the Ojibwa remaining on the island were moved 

 over to the new La Pointe Reservation at Odanah, where they are 

 to-day. The last representative of the Cadotte family was an old 

 Indian whom Mr. Stone knew so well and from whom he received 

 much information about the past of his tribe. This old man, Jean 

 Baptiste Cadotte, 3d, died in 1913. . 



PRESENT CONDITIONS ON LA POINTE ISLAND AND 



PROSPECTS OF ARCHEOLOGICAL WORK ON 



THE ISLAND AND IN THE REGION OF 



CHEQUAMEGON BAY, WISCONSIN 



When the writer went to La Pointe Island, Wisconsin, with the 

 expectation of doing archeological work there, he found the present 

 conditions unfavorable for work at just that time. The situation was 

 this: 



La Pointe Island is thickly settled, largely with a population of 

 summer residents. A good-sized hotel (the " Old Mission ") attracts 

 many people there, and the half-breed Indian natives of the island 

 largely support themselves by work connected with the hotel and its 



*Thwaites, 1895, p. 416 ff. 

 " Thwaites, 1895, p. 419. 

 ^Thwaites, 1895, p. 421. 



