The Black Hawk War - Rockford Public Schools

The h Credit d System
Th The SSauk k and d
Mesquakie received
their winter supplies on
credit dit f from the th French F h
and later, the British.
They would pay off their
ddebt bt with ith f furs and d skins ki
as the traders followed
them and set up near
their h i winter i camps.
Trouble getting winter
supplies on credit from
the h AAmericans i was a
source of tension.