The Headwaters War: The Conflict for the Mississippi Headwaters

In the late 1600s and early 1700s the headwaters of the Mississippi was a forested land of lakes and streams, teaming with game; the home of the powerful Dakota branch of the Western Sioux Nation. But it was not to last; another force, the Ojibwe, an Algonquin tribe from the east, were on the move westward along the shores of Lake Superior, and in the late 1600s these two powerful tribes met. At first, through the influence of the French, several decades of peace followed, but in the late 1...