BY: Halyee Saraglou and Faith Roberts and Ashley Catron
JACQUES MARQUETTE Was a Jesuit priest a missionary and explorer was an instrumental in exploring French influence in the early new.
JACQUES MARQUETTE Jacques Marquette was born in London France on June and joined the society of Jesus at age seventeen. After he worked and thought in France for several years, the Jesuits assigned him to new France in 1666 as a missionary to the indigenous peoples of the Americans.
MARQUETTE MISSION Marquette accompanied the Otto and their Huron neighbors as they returned from the advancing Sioux new mission was established at point St.Ignace at the junction of lakes Michigan and Huron.
MEETING LOUIS JOLLIET In 1671, Marquette met the famed French explorer, Louis Jolliet. Both men had heard rumors about the existence of a great South- Flowing river located somewhere in the west. However two years later, Count. Frontenac, the governor for Marquette and Jolliet to pursue their endeavor.
AT LA POINTE AAt La Pointe he encountered members of the Illinois' tribes, who told him about the important trading route of the Mississippi River. They invited him to teach their people whose settlements were mostly further South. Because of wars between the neighboring Lakota people, Father Marquette left the mission and went to the Straits of Mackinac; he informed his superiors about the rumors river and the river and requested permission to explore it.
TRAVELING Sharing Command of a small party, the explorers crossed Lake Michigan by canoe, pushed west up the Fox River, portaged to the Wisconsin River and then paddled into the Mississippi.
CANOEING Then paddled into the Mississippi. They drifted South passing the Ohio river but later stopped near the Mississippi, eventually they emptied into the Gulf of Mexico, but feared falling into Spanish.
THE END OF JACQUES Having established a French citizen claimed the Mississippi Valley. Marquette resumed his missionary work. He died at the young age of 38, but left behind a written account of his explorations that would be published in 1618.
CREDITS We used: Google.com U-S-history FYI: Jacques was also a preacher and his people at his church called him Pe’re Marquette. We hope you all enjoyed our slide show!!!!!