This is Thomas Anon,
Good Sunday to everyone reading this,
Well, I’m “supposed” to take a bit of rest, so I was supposedly resting, while reading all of the links everyone is sending and getting interested in some parts of it, so I was doing a bit of “side digging”. I will come back on a later date to adress those, but for now, I landed on a HUGE bombshell. That is why I’m posting this tonight, it’s to be made public as soon as possible.
While, I was digging, I came across this :
https://www.revolvy.com/page/Lewis-Cass-expedition
The Lewis Cass expedition of 1820 was a survey of the western part of Michigan Territory led by Lewis Cass, governor of the territory. On January 14, 1820, United States Secretary of War John C. Calhoun authorized Cass to lead a party of scientists, soldiers, Canadian voyageurs, and Native Americans into the wilderness of western Michigan Territory. The purpose of the expedition was to:[1][2]
• survey the geography and topography of the region in order to produce a complete map
• survey the flora and fauna of the region
• survey the Indians of the region, their numbers, tribes, customs, and loyalties, whether to the United States or Great Britain
• select and purchase sites for forts, especially at Sault Ste. Marie
• survey the geology of the region, especially with regard to commercially valuable minerals
• search for the source of the Mississippi River
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Taking 16 Ojibwa with them, the expedition descended the Mississippi, pausing to hunt buffalo along the banks. Near the Falls of Saint Anthony they encountered an encampment of the Fifth Infantry under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Leavenworth. Here the resident Indian agent, Major Lawrence Taliaferro called together the local Sioux for a ceremony of peace with the Ojibwa accompanying the Cass expedition.