Louis Joliet by Jayoun Walker https://padlet.com/walkerj471/o8w86r93efbtlc0y en-us 2021-10-04 15:14:23 UTC 2025-11-10 11:47:00 UTC hello@padlet.com Mississippi River, United States walkerj471 https://padlet.com/walkerj471/o8w86r93efbtlc0y/wish/1790079509 In 1673, adventurer began a privately-sponsored expedition with missionary, a missionary and linguist, to be among the first Europeans to explore what was referred to as by Native Americans the "Mesipi" river and ascertain wherever it led to, with hopes of finding a passage to Asia. once meeting within the Michilimackinac region, the men started their journey by canoe on may 17, 1673, to what would be referred to as the mississippi river. A month later, they stumbled on a native village within the Illinois area and were hosted by the tribe's chief, who sent his son with the group as a guide along with a peace pipe for future safe passage.]]> 2021-10-04 15:32:26 UTC https://padlet.com/walkerj471/o8w86r93efbtlc0y/wish/1790079509 St. Louis, MO, USA walkerj471 https://padlet.com/walkerj471/o8w86r93efbtlc0y/wish/1790091743 Continuing their travels to the Arkansas River region, they eventually came upon a native tribe ready to attack near the region that would be known as St. Louis. After seeing the peace pipe in Joliet's hands, the tribe took the explorers to their village and revealed that there were armed Europeans further along the Mississippi. Joliet and Marquette realized that these were the Spanish settlers at the Gulf of Mexico — deducing that's where the Mississippi led to and not Asia — and hence decided to turn around to avoid conflict and capture, having also noted other westward rivers. Along the way back, the young native guide showed the explorers a shorter route home by taking the Illinois River, with the men coming upon Lake Michigan and rich prairie land.]]> 2021-10-04 15:35:51 UTC https://padlet.com/walkerj471/o8w86r93efbtlc0y/wish/1790091743 St. Ignace, MI, USA walkerj471 https://padlet.com/walkerj471/o8w86r93efbtlc0y/wish/1790107570 On May 17, 1673, Jolliet and Marquette departed from St. Ignace, Michigan with two canoes and five other voyageurs of French-Indian ancestry. The group sailed to Green Bay. They then paddled upstream (southward) on the Fox River to the site now known as Portage, Wisconsin. There, they portaged a distance of slightly less than two miles through marsh and oak forest to the Wisconsin River. Europeans eventually built a trading post at that shortest convenient portage between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins. On June 17, the canoeists ventured onto the Mississippi River near present-day Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.]]> 2021-10-04 15:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/walkerj471/o8w86r93efbtlc0y/wish/1790107570 Mississippi River, United States walkerj471 https://padlet.com/walkerj471/o8w86r93efbtlc0y/wish/1790112848 The Jolliet-Marquette expedition traveled down the Mississippi to within 435 miles (700 km) of the Gulf of Mexico. They turned back north at the mouth of the Arkansas River. By this point, they had encountered natives carrying European goods and worried about a possible hostile encounter with explorers or colonists from Spain.[5] The voyageurs then followed the Mississippi back to the mouth of the Illinois River, which friendly natives told them was a shorter route back to the Great Lakes. Following the Illinois river upstream, they then turned up its tributary the Des Plaines River near modern-day Joliet, Illinois. They then continued up the Des Plaines River and portaged their canoes and gear at the Chicago Portage. They then followed the Chicago River downstream until they reached Lake Michigan near the location of modern-day Chicago. Father Marquette stayed at the mission of St. Francis Xavier at the southern end of Green Bay, which they reached in August. Joliet returned to Quebec to relate the news of their discoveries.]]> 2021-10-04 15:41:36 UTC https://padlet.com/walkerj471/o8w86r93efbtlc0y/wish/1790112848 Mississippi River, United States walkerj471 https://padlet.com/walkerj471/o8w86r93efbtlc0y/wish/1793350756 To examine the Mississippi River's route, fur trader Louis Joliet embarked on a four-month journey that took them thousands of miles across the heart of North America. Their voyage aided in the establishment of the first non-Native-American settlements in the North American interior, which brought Christianity to 600,000 square miles of wilderness, gave French names to cities from La Crosse to New Orleans, transformed traditional Indian cultures, and nearly wiped out the Upper Midwest's fur-bearing mammals.(p.s its a little bit short of 100 words it was hard to find a lot of stuff on them.)]]> 2021-10-05 14:49:51 UTC https://padlet.com/walkerj471/o8w86r93efbtlc0y/wish/1793350756 Québec, QC, Canada walkerj471 https://padlet.com/walkerj471/o8w86r93efbtlc0y/wish/1796854036 The following year, Joliet wed Claire-Françoise Bissot and became more actively involved in Quebec's church and community life. He returned to fur trading in 1676, setting up a business in the northern region of the St. Lawrence and also working as a merchant in the Mingan Archipelago. He took on another exploratory mission in 1679, at the behest of French colonists, to survey English and Native American trading relations in the Hudson Bay area.

Toward the end of the 17th century, Joliet was internationally known for his expeditions, from which official regional maps were created. Joliet went on another trip in 1694 to make detailed observations of the Labrador Coast, and in 1697, became a hydrography professor at the University of Quebec. He died in 1700.

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