Father Jacques ... tribe. Marquette was heading back toward Lake Michigan, so the Illini told him about a shortcut. This was the Chicago portage. The expedition took the Illini’s route and ...

It wasn’t until late fall of 1674 that Father Jacques ... “a southern route not taken before,” according to the Jesuit Relations account of Dablon, which also describes Marquette’s death ...

The story of Father Jacques Marquette, the 17th-century French Jesuit whose Upper Peninsula mission became St. Ignace, will now be told from the perspective of Native Americans as a national ...