Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-09-28

! Morning. She was then an old wo
man, an had for many Yeas regned
as undlsputed sovereign over her
people. From all We can learn, it
seems as If her powers exceeded
those Of any chief Of whom we have
| knowledge; her sway was not ham
pered by the democratic Interference
ri her people, as the authority Of a
CHIEF was apt to be at any time
Size was the daughter Of an heredit-
AIRY Winnebago chief, and by reason
/ of failure on incompetence Of the
male succession became at quite an
catly age ruler over the then numCr.
Gus aud powerful people. She mar,
! ried French adventurer named
! Descairo, which name became cor,
ruptcd by slow stages to de Kauray
| Decaury AMI finally to the DEBORAH
Of more recent times. Her husband
! joined the French forces In their war
with the English and was mortally
wounded ut the battle before Quebec
| in April, 1860, dying soon after. At
The time Of Colonel Caryers visit che
was widow, mOurnfully devoted to
The only prince ConsOrt that ever
played second fiddle on American
soil. She had two sons, Chahpo5t
ka-ka, the IHI2Hard and Chonka-ka,
the ladle, better known IN our local
history us Spoon de Kauray. Both Of
these became chiefs after the death
of their queenmothcr, and while
they ggmo considerably In early Wis
consin history, neither seems 10
have been equal to the high charac-
tor of his mother.
| When Colonel Carver visited Glory
of the Morning the WlnnGbagoCs were
In highly prosperous state. The
IrOynl village contained about so
houses; other villages We're located on
! The western shore of tho lake and on
IroX river. Agriculture was then at
! lis highest ebb with this hunter
! tribe, and to the master hanG of their
queen we must give the credit for
the few years of industry practlced
~ n people who nave no other like
period Of production set down TO them
In their tradition or history. They
grew great quantities OF melons,
beans, pumpkins and corn; had plumS
| grapes and other fruit in such guam.
Titles, Of such excellent quality. that
they must have been cultivated,
! What the condition of the good
natulcd WinnchaGoca may have been
prior TO l7G6 we have no means of
! knowing, for they wore from the first
sinrulally void of traditions; but We
do know that after the strong hand
of Glory Of the Morning was Still and
cold, they became SO sAlItloss and
improvidcnt as to indicate that they
had but lapscd into Il normal state
Az often occurs with tho civilized
whites, the family Of DcCorah seems to
huVo gone to seed The lu2Hard
was wcll and appropriately named
He Is mentioned only once, and then
incidentally In the first ten volumes
! Of Wisconsin Historical Collections
! His brother, Spoon DeCoruh achieved
more mention ana has yet some lin
gclmg fame IN certain localities
But he was not the active leader, the
moral and intellectual force that was
his mother They were p,ogenators
of several chiefs, more or less mixed
up with Wisconsin history. One-oyed
| DEBORAH Is probably best known OF
the third generation, He edged into
history ms one of the captors OF Black
HawE. after the final defeat of that
Jolly oh buffer Mt the battle of Bad
Axe. What services he had rem
dCred to the cause of the Americans
before that battle, II any. one would
need time and patience To discover,
Elites, DEBORAH lived long al Portage
ON the bounty of the whites, and
possessed some naits Of character
that ycally suggested kinship to his
grandmother, Unlike several others
of the family there was nothing re-
markuhly Degenerate about him, and
he won the title of the Grand Old In.
diun at The age of 30, and died very
soon thereafter. Nhon there were
Black DeCorah, Snake Skin, White
War eagle. Washington. Rascal De
corah and many others A numerous
family il WAS, anG we'll launched into
the Indian world. but early degen-
crate Only for the fortunate dp-
prnranCe of Colonel Carver ON the
scene, In the year t766 we might now
think that the family of DEBORAH was
sliftless from the beginning.
Wisconsin not Young.
Wisconsin waS the thirtieth state to
be admitted into the union. yet few OF
the commonwealth that attained an
earlier statehood were traversed by
white men before she w,e. Bancroft
surprised New England""s in the FIRST
edition Of his History NJ the United
States by the statement that Joliet
i NJ urttr crossed WISCONSIN rs
,nrv As 1878 on their way to the
! mississippi river, This western
~rnutry. that rs late rs 1873 was re
garded hv Il good portion Of New Eng