General
https://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/
Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin vols 1-21, Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1855-1915.
Dunn, James Taylor. 1965. The St. Croix: Midwest Border River. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York.
Eccles, W. J. 1969. The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Murphy, Lucy Eldersveld. 2000. A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Mining and Metis in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
The Parkman Club Papers vols 1-18, The Parkman Club, 1896 and 1897, Milwaukee.
Podruchny, Carolyn. 2006. Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
Ross, Nelson Hamilton. 2000. La Pointe: Village Outpost on Madeline Island. Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Madison.
Scanlan, Lawrence Peter. 2013. Prairie du Chien: French, British, American. Prairie du Chien Historical Society, Prairie du Chien.
Sleeper-Smith, Susan. 2009. Rethinking the Fur Trade: Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
White, Richard.1991. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. Cambridge University Press, New York.
Janik, Erika. 2010. A Short History of Wisconsin. Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison.
Smith, Alice E. 1973. The History of Wisconsin, Volume 1: From Exploration to Statehood. Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison.
Native People
Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin
Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Sokaogon Chippewa Community (Mole Lake Band of Lake Superior Chippewa)
St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin
Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians
Brothertown Indians (not federally recognized)
Wisconsin First Nations site: https://wisconsinfirstnations.org/
Tribal Nations of Wisconsin: Contains links to the official websites for each of the American Indian Nations of Wisconsin: https://dpi.wi.gov/amind/tribalnationswi
Bieder, Robert E. 1995. Native American Communities in Wisconsin, 1600-1960: A Study of Tradition and Change. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.
Birmingham, Robert A. and Amy Rosebrough. 2017. Indian Mounds of Wisconsin,2nd edition. Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Madison.
Birmingham, Robert A. and Lynne G. Goldstein. 2006. Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town. Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Madison.
Loew, Patty. 2013. Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal (Revised 2nd edition). Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
Loew, Patty. 2015. Native People of Wisconsin: Revised and Expanded Edition. Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Madison.
Lurie, Nancy Oestreich. 2002. Wisconsin Indians, revised and expanded. Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Madison.
Ray, Kristofer and Brady DeSanti. Teaching and Understanding Native American History. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.
Tanner, Helen Hornbeck and Miklos Pinther. 1987. Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History. University of Oklahoma Press, Oklahoma City.
Trask, Kerry. 1989. “Settlement in a Half-Savage Land: Life and Loss in the Metis Community of Green Bay,” Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 15, No.1 Spring 1989.
Early French Explorers
Chmielewski, Laura. 2017. Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet: Exploration, Encounter, and the French New World. Routledge.
Jung, Patrick J. 2018. The Misunderstood Mission of Jean Nicolet: Uncovering the Story of the 1634 Journey. Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Madison.
Kellogg, Louise Phelps. 1925. The French Regime in Wisconsin and the Old Northwest. State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison.
Lurie, Nancy Oesterich and Patrick J. Jung. 2009. The Nicolet Corrigenda: New France Revisited. Waveland Press, Inc., Chicago.
Thwaites, Reuben Gold. 1901. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Exploration of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791, Vol. 1-73, Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society.
French Settlement
Alderson, Jo Bartels. 1998. Wisconsin’s Early French Habitants, Heritage Books, Inc.
Antoine, Mary Elise. 2022. Enslaved, Indentured, Free: Five Black Women on the Upper Mississippi, 1800-1850. Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Madison.
Antoine, Mary Elise. 1986. “The Vertefeuille House of Prairie du Chien: A Survivor from the Era of French Wisconsin,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 80 No. 1, Autumn 1986.
Antoine, Mary Elise. 2016. The War of 1812 in Wisconsin: The Battle for Prairie du Chien. Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Madison.
Antoine, Mary Elise. 2022. Frenchtown Cemetery: Old Catholic Burying Ground, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, 1816-1840: History and Burials, Mineral Point WI: Little Creek Press, 2022.
Antoine, Mary Elise and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, eds. 2016. Frenchtown Chronicles of Prairie du Chien: History and Folklore from Wisconsin’s Frontier. Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Madison.
Brumm, Timothy. 2018.“Fort La Baye: A Primitive Fort in an Unpredictable Era,” Voyageur, Winter/Spring, 2018.
Ernst, Kathleen. 1999.Trouble at Fort Lapointe. The Pleasant Company, Middleton, WI. (young adult fiction)
Kinzie, Juliette M. 1989. Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest. The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Wisconsin, Portage, Wisconsin. Reprint of 1856 edition.
Murphy, Lucy Eldersveld. 2000. A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Mining and Metis in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
Murphy, Lucy Eldersveld. 2014. Great Lake Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750-1860, Cambridge University Press, New York.
Sherry, Laura Case. 1931. Old Prairie du Chien. Black Manikin Press, Paris.
Shrake, Peter. 2016. The Silver Man: The Life and Times of John Kinzie. Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Madison.
Silbernagel, Robert. 2020. The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior. Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Madison.
Starr, Mary Agnes. 1981. Pea Soup and Johnny Cake. Red Mountain Publishing House, Madison.
Wiederaenders, Robert C. 1999. Jean Baptiste Cardinal and the Affair of Gratiot’s Bost: An Incident in the American Revolution. Center for French Colonial Studies, Naperville, IL.
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