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it, that they address their<br />

vows. If we made credit these<br />

people this lake proceeds from<br />

a divine original, <strong>and</strong> was<br />

formed by Michabou god of the<br />

waters, in order to catch<br />

beavers.[4]<br />

<strong>French</strong> Bypass the Straits Region. - The<br />

<strong>French</strong> advanced into the Straits of Mackinac<br />

early in the seventeenth century but did not<br />

settle there. In 1634 Jean Nicollet (c.1598-<br />

1642) passed through the Straits on his way<br />

to Green Bay seeking a route to Asia. The<br />

Tionontati/Petun <strong>and</strong> Huron people migrated<br />

westward fleeing Iroquois hostility. <strong>French</strong><br />

traders such as Sieur des Groseilliers<br />

(c.1618-c.1696) <strong>and</strong> Sieur de Radisson (1654-<br />

1660) <strong>and</strong> the Jesuit missionaries such as<br />

René Menard (1605-1661), Claude Allouez<br />

(1622-1689), Claude Dablon (1619-1697), <strong>and</strong><br />

Jacques Marquette (1637-1675) went up the St.<br />

Mary's River into the Lake Superior country

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