The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-09-29
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JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

are the decisive Battles
of the World"-if not in themselves as
battles, then in their effects upon his.
tory. But many an armed contest
rather a skirmish from a military
l viewpoint than decisive" engage
\ ment-has had far-reaching results
- which make a fascinating story. For
N example:
e Champaign, in discovering the lake
+, that bears his name, used his argue
buses on a band of Indians from the
Iroquois Confederacy and set them
home to the Mohawk valley of New York.
Is in 1909, two years after the founding Of
bwn, eleven years before the landing of the
and eighty years before the beginning of
4 ed clash between the French and English
possession Of America.
q far cry from 1909 to 1922; from New
Montana; from Iroquois to Flatheads.
same, it was Champlain who set the feet
BUS Whitman and Father Pierre-Jean De
j.. on the Oregon Trail two centuries
darcus Whitman, Presbyterian missionary,
statesman and martyr, saved Oregon and
inc Northwest for the United States. Fa-
Smet, greatest and most practical mission
ever labored among the American In
potted the far Northwest with religious
acational establishments, kept many
trlDe from the warpath and served we'll
Frnment of his adopted land. The history
|merican Northwest cannot be told without
and De Smet-both of whom Champlain
'ef the oregon Trail to everlasting fame
is the story in brief, with its fascinating
-sequences of cause and effect:
foquols Confederacy, because of Cham
ATTACK swore undying enmity to the
Inc Indians Of this unique confederacy-
Oayugas, Onondagas, Senecas, Oneidas
'aforas-by the time the French and Brit.
grips in 1859, were dictatorial over
al ue tribes from Hudson's bay to the
irohtler OF the Carolinas and from the
' 10 the Mississippi. Their geograph-
Ou ana influence gave them the balance
oe.ween the French and the British.
Dig factor in the several wars which
eSulted in the expulsion of the French
capture of Quebec by Wolfe In 1859.
s.... all the Iroquois kept on siding
.i'lsh' except the Oneidas and part of
SOri They laid waste the American
l,h'ah led an American punitive expe-
m aes'roved their homes, crops and or
a ae outcome of the Revolution drove the
ae Tribes to Canada.
- many of the exiled Iroquois were
.! Jesuit missionaries, whose prin-
:" america had been in New France
'reheh possessions
nIsa pdl'y OF "A 1roquois left the Roman
pno" s'on OF Caughnawaga, Canada, on the
NJ. anu struck out across the Mississippi
:! ended up among the Flatheads OF
al H., valley. These Iroquois were led
ain. nousse (Old Ignace). who achieved
hem =. influence among the Flatheads,
me rites of the Roman Catholic re-
IAas sI "t' tribal desire for the presence
Nm =, .'.sult missionaries) which resulted
as oa - 1851 10 send delegation to the
h nry TO ask for them.
h ~ a. TO glance at the chronology
susn,as west which was just beginning
ied :. ,- with the white man. st. Louis
h4A t LOS The Lewis and Clark expe-
b, h.. aau passed through their country.
to hsu discovered the Yellowstone in
: pa aco,. ndiculed as an impossibility
! dh 1S1o He'll" Astoria had been
Gen. William II. Ashley and hts
sosr,a e Rocky Mountain Fur company,
h,n al 81. Louis. had begun to use
'n after 1922 on their trips to