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Jacques Marquette, born in Laon, France in 1637, entered the Jesuit
order in 1654 and was sent on a foreign mission to Canada in 1666.
Replacing Father Allouez at Chequamegon Bay in 1669, Marquette went
on to build the St. Ignace mission in the Upper Pennisula of
Michigan, in 1671 before exploring the Mississippi with Louis
Joliet in 1673. Earlier exploration in the western Great Lakes and
reports from by Native Americans revealed the possibility that a
great river drained either west or south of the region. These
stories continued to feed the hope that a northwest passage to the
Pacific remained undiscovered. French officials commissioned Louis
Joliet and Father Marquette to explore the region and to claim that
vast stretch of land for the French Crown. Count de Frontenac,
vice-regent to Louis XIV, saw this expedition as the first step in
creating a French empire stretching from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. As Joliet lost his accounts of the trip, Marquette’s
descriptions became the only record of this historic expedition.
Marquette and Joliet left Michilimackinac on May 17, 1673, and
headed their canoes south along Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to
present-day Green Bay, Wisconsin. They visited with the Menominee
Indians and Marquette described the “folle avione” or wild rice
growing throughout the region that sustained large populations of
native people. They arrived at the mouth of the Fox River at Green
Bay and ascended upstream to Lake Winnebago and continued upriver
until they camped with the Mascouten (an Algonquian tribe) who
lived at what became Berlin in Green Lake County, Wisconsin. The
Mascouten described a river called the “Meskousing” that flowed
near the backwaters of the Fox River and was accessible by a short
portage. They used the portage to enter the Wisconsin River near
the present-day city of Portage, Wisconsin. They arrived at the
Mississippi River on June 17, 1673. Once on the Mississippi,
Marquette describes “a monster with the head of a tiger, the nose
of a wildcat, and whisker”—a large species of catfish. On the
riverbank, Marquette described the presence of large cattle, the
bison. They met with bands of the Illinois tribes living in the
region, who shared calumet pipes of tobacco with the French
explorers. Here, Marquette describes the woven rush homes of the
Illinois tribe and large gardens filled with melons, squash, beans,
and tobacco. They continued downriver past the Missouri and the
Ohio Rivers until stopping at the Arkansas River in July 1763. They
guessed that the Mississippi emptied into the Gulf of Mexico, and
that traveling further south might mean capture by the Spaniards
and so returned to the north by way of the Illinois River and Lake
Michigan. After this expedition, Marquette set off in late 1674 to
build a mission among the Illinois Indians, despite suffering from
a lengthy illness. Though he managed to spend Easter among the
Illinois at his new mission, Marquette became too ill to continue
and died in 1675 on his return trip to the mission at St. Ignace.
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