Hahatouadeba

Hahatououadeba is a historical name for the Chippewa River, which runs southwest from the northern Wisconsin lake country to the Mississippi. Dakota communities dominated the valley in the seventeenth century. In 1686 the French trader Nicolas Perrot built Fort St. Antoine near the river's mouth and traded for furs with the Dakota. During the eighteenth century Ojibwe people came to control much of the upper valley, amid a long conflict between the two peoples.