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MN Hist. Ch. 7 & 8
Chapter 7 & 8
Question | Answer |
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Obemau-unoqua | Ojibway woman that married John Sayer |
John Sayer | This man was a partner in the Northwest trading company. |
bourgeois | boss - What Sayer was |
voyagers | workers - what Sayers men were. |
gum | sticky sap for waterproofing patches for canoes |
Susan Johnston | daughter of Ojibway White Fischer, married John Johnston |
red river carts | made entirely of wood and pulled by ox or pony |
The Bongas | A me'tis family with a difference, they were black slaves |
Me'tis | marriage between traders and Indians |
sugar huts | bark wigwams built near maple groves |
Zebulon Pike | a young army officer sent by the US to find a good place to build a fort |
Lawrence Taliaferro | first Indian agent at Fort Snelling |
Cloud Man | first Dakota to try farming |
Little crow | The chief of the Dakota community of Kasopia. |
Colonel Josiah Snelling | first commander of Fort Snelling |
Abigail Hunt Snelling | the daughter,sister, wife and mother to army officers |
Seth Eastman | An officer with great interest in Indian ways , he was an artist |
Nancy Eastman | Her mother was Dakota, and her father was the artist Seth Eastman |
Mary Eastman | Seth's wife, a warmhearted person |
Dakota Hunters | Sayer was afraid of these people because he traded with their enemies. |