Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette and fur trapper Louis Jolliet led a French expedition on the Mississippi. They were the first Europeans to explore this area. This lesson begins with students ...

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Marie has been a place where Native Americans gathered, fished, and hunted for centuries. By the time French settler Father ...

The Missouri name was initially recorded during an exploration down the Mississippi River by French missionary Jacques ...

May-September: Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet's exploration of the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan takes them by the future site of Chicago. Joliet reports that a canal connecting Lake ...