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John Long's journal, 1768-1782

Note 60 — VOYAGES AND TRAVELS (continued 2)

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This is true not only of the St. Croix River (Wisconsin) Chippewas, but of nearly all the tribe up to the present time. The “woods Indian” north of Lake Superior is usually a Chippewa (Ojibwa), and a large portion of those under the care of the Canadian government are still hunters. The Canadian Department of Indian Affairs, in its Report for 1900, represents the modern Ojibwa as little changed, except from general inability to obtain liquor as freely as in the olden days of the fur-trade.—Ed.

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