By 1658 the Jesuits had learned of the existence of thirty Dakota villages west-northwest from the potawatomi mission St Michel; and in 1689 they recorded the presence of tribes apparently representing the Dakota confederacy on the upper Mississippi, near the mouth of the St Croix.
"The Siouan Indians"
W. J. McGee
On this occasion the chiefs and warriors assembled in the council-house in the potawatomi village south of the fort.
"The War Chief of the Ottawas A Chronicle of the Pontiac War: Volume 15 (of 32) in the series Chronicles of Canada"
Thomas Guthrie Marquis