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63: 474: 312:, Brisbois furnished supplies to both the American and British forces but maintained a pro-British attitude. Arrested for treason at the close of the war, he was sent to St. Louis, Missouri, for trial but was acquitted. After the war, Brisbois became a baker in Prairie du Chien. Still a trader at heart, he noted the lack of stability in early government currency, and encouraged the use of bread (from his bakery) as a unit of exchange. 125: 22: 355:
system, in which they consider children born to the mother's people. By other accounts, according to affidavits of people who knew the persons involved, Brisbois had fathered at least one daughter named Angelica Brisbois with a "full blood Winnebago woman," named Cham-brey-win-kaw. After Angelica's
297:. In 1781 he moved his operations to Prairie du Chien where, with other French-Canadian traders, he founded the first permanent European settlement. Although sympathizing with the British in the struggle for control of the 517: 410:
as part of a separation contract negotiated in 1836 for his estranged wife Jane Fisher Rolette. She was said to be a relative of Michel Brisbois. She married again in 1844 after Rolette's death, to
335:(Ho-Chunk) woman, in what may have been an informal or "country marriage" typical in that period between traders and Native American women. (She was reputedly the natural, or illegitimate 493: 356:
death, her widower cited her Ho-Chunk ancestry as the basis for claiming money for their two children, set aside for people of mixed ancestry in the 1837 Winnebago treaty.
351:. The children were named Angélique, Michel, and Antoine, and were raised primarily by their mother, who lived in a settlement with Ho-Chunk relatives. The Ho-Chunk have a 537: 266:. Still a trader at heart, he noted the lack of stability in early government currency, and encouraged the use of bread (from his bakery) as a unit of exchange. 135: 398:
was mistakenly believed to be the Michel Brisbois House, and was thus considered to be one of the oldest European-American buildings in the State of
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Neither White Men Nor Indians: Affidavits from the Winnebago Mixed-Blood Claims Commission
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In 1819 Brisbois was appointed associate justice for Crawford County by US Governor
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and a native woman). Dousman had three mixed-race children with her. In Canada the
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Soon turning to the fur trade along the upper Mississippi River, he worked out of
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after the United States achieved independence, he accepted a commission in the
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have been recognized as an ethnic group that has the status of a
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Emigrants from pre-Confederation Quebec to the United States
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Michel Brisebois was born to a French-Canadian family in
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valley as early as 1781. Originally a fur trader for the
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Later Brisbois married formally on August 8, 1796, in
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