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Point) area in St. Ignace around 1650 <strong>and</strong><br />

there is some evidence for similar occupation<br />

at the Beyer site as well.[18] However after<br />

a short stay there, others (including<br />

Kiskakon <strong>and</strong> Sable groups) fled with other<br />

Algonquians <strong>and</strong> the Hurons to Huron Isl<strong>and</strong><br />

(later called Potawatomi Isl<strong>and</strong>, then<br />

Washington Isl<strong>and</strong>, now Rock Isl<strong>and</strong>) at the<br />

entrance to Green Bay. They fortified<br />

themselves against the Iroquois <strong>and</strong> resumed<br />

the fur trade sending a fleet of canoes to<br />

the St. Lawrence valley in 1654.[19] This was<br />

an important development for the <strong>French</strong><br />

because the western trade had been cut off<br />

since the Iroquois war.<br />

Westward Migration to <strong>Northern</strong><br />

Wisconsin. - When these Indians were<br />

threatened by the Iroquois in 1654 or 1655<br />

they moved westward. They lived briefly in<br />

the late 1650s, on an isl<strong>and</strong> in Lake Pepin,

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