part of the Anishinabe confederacy, they moved west into Wisconsin under pressure from the Iroquois after the arrival of Europeans along the Atlantic seaboard .

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[Source: Loew, Patty. Indian Nations of Wisconsin (Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2001).]