Robert Remini
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 19 Sep
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He soon joined the St.
Lawrence Indians in their war parties and explored large portions of the interior.
in sixteen o nine he went with the indians to a beautiful lake far away to the east were mountains covered with snow to the south were other mountains but with no snow on their tops to the lake the explorer gave his own name and we still call it in his honor lake champlain
While there, he drove away with his firearms a body of Iroquois Indians.
A few years later, he went with another war party to western New York and again attacked the Iroquois.
28.
The French on the Great Lakes
Champlain was the first of many French discoverers.
Some of these were missionaries who left home and friends to bring the blessings of Christianity to the red men of the Western world.
Others were fur traders, while still others were men who came to the wilderness in search of excitement.
These French discoverers found Lake Superior and Lake Michigan.
They even reached the headwaters of the Wisconsin River, a branch of the Mississippi.
29, the French missionaries.
The most active of the French missionaries were the Jesuits.
30.
The Iroquois
Strongest of all the Indian tribes were the nations that formed the League of Iroquois.
Ever since Champlain fired upon them, they hated the sight of a Frenchman.
On the other hand, they looked upon the Dutch and the English as their friends.
French missionaries tried to convert them to Christianity as they had converted the St.
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