Fox Wars
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Military History, Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution
- Subcategories: Wars, Battles, Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Colonial History (1607-1775), American Indian History
- Geographical Location: Michigan
- Date: Summer, 1714-1741
Article abstract: Generations of intertribal warfare and French attempts to obtain peace.
Although the Fox people trace their own origins to the northeastern seaboard, they clearly emerged in Native American history in the late seventeenth century in the western Great Lakes region. First known under their Algonquian name, Mesquakies (People of the Red Earth), they were later referred to in early French explorers’ journals as renards, or Foxes, a name that persists in the literature. Most of what is known about the Fox tribe and their often hostile...
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