The Meskwaki, or Foxes, had lived east…

1666 CE

The Meskwaki, or Foxes, had lived east of Michigan along the Saint Lawrence River.

The tribe may have numbered as many as ten thousand, but years of war with the French-supplied Hurons and exposure to infectious disease had reduced their numbers and forced them west, initially to the area between Saginaw Bay and Detroit in Michigan.

The Meskwaki move their main village in the winter of 1665-1666 to ...

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