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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 10: Fort Crawford, 1832-33. (search)
to translate; they designated people by their qualities rather than by their names. The Indians also received new names from the Canadians. The Chippewas were Sauteurs; Menominees, Folles Avoines; Ottawas, Courtes Oreilles; Winnebagoes, Les Puans, and other sobriquets, indicative of the peculiarities of each tribe. The names of places which were corrupted from the English and French names of the trees which grew about them, are now hardly traceable to their original source — for Bois Blanc Island, Bob Law's Island; for Roche Percd Creek, Roosha Persia Creek; Piche‘s Grove, Specie Grove; the latter was probably just where Oswego is now situated. The frontier houses consisted generally of one room. When strangers came, who were rarely refused such hospitality as the people had to offer, a rope was stretched across from one wall to another, and whatever of clothing was removed before lying down, was thrown across this extemporized partition. All the family, of both sexes, oc