In some cases, notably the Dakota confederacy, the constitution of the divisions is also satisfactory, though in others, including the Asiniboin, Mandan, and winnebago, the tabulation represents little more than superficial enumeration of villages and bands, generally by observers possessing little knowledge of Indian sociology or language.
"The Siouan Indians"
W. J. McGee
Their later location at the entrance of Lake winnebago was unoccupied, at least in the time of Allouez, because of the hostility of the Sioux.
"The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin"
Frederick Jackson Turner
On the other side of the state were the Sioux, "the Iroquois of the West," as the missionaries call them, who had once claimed all the region, and whose invasions, Allouez says, rendered Lake winnebago uninhabited.
"The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin"
Frederick Jackson Turner