the Mascoutin Indians, also known as the Fire Nation; they appear to have entered Wisconsin after 1600 under pressure from the Iroquois, and left or intermarried with other nations by about 1720.

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[Source: Perrot, Nicolas. Ch. 15 of "Mémoire sur les moeurs, coustumes et religion des sauvages de l'Amérique Septentrionale" at Turning Points in Wis. History (www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/)]