LRB-3593/1
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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
June 29, 2023 - Introduced by Senators Pfaff,
Carpenter, Roys and Cowles,
cosponsored by Representatives
Oldenburg, Ohnstad, Joers, Stubbs,
Subeck, Tranel, Shankland, O'Connor and Baldeh. Referred to Committee
on Senate Organization.
SJR58,1,1
1Relating to: proclaiming June 17, 2023, Prairie du Chien Day.
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Whereas, 350 years ago, Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet set out
3from Michigan to explore the waterways from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi
4River; and
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Whereas, Father Marquette was a French-born Jesuit missionary and Joliet
6was a fur trader and mapmaker; and
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Whereas, in 1673, Father Marquette and Joliet led an expedition to map the
8land and waterways in this region of America for the French; and
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Whereas, Native Americans had lived in the area and traveled these waterways
10for thousands of years prior to Father Marquette and Joliet, and helped them
11navigate on their expedition; and
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Whereas, Father Marquette and Joliet arrived in Prairie du Chien on June 17,
131673, where they entered the Mississippi River and traveled south for hundreds of
14miles; and
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1Whereas, Father Marquette and Joliet's expedition confirmed for the French
2that it was possible to travel by water from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico;
3and
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Whereas, this confirmation and the information gathered from the expedition
5led to the establishment of French trading posts across the region, and the settlement
6of Prairie du Chien and other cities; and
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Whereas, Prairie du Chien will hold a community festival June 16 through
8June 18 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of this expedition; now, therefore,
9be it
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10Resolved by the
senate, the assembly concurring, That the Wisconsin
11Legislature hereby proclaims June 17, 2023, Prairie du Chien Day, in honor of the
12350th expedition anniversary.
