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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Jean Nicolet, French Diplomat to Wisconsin’s First Nations
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:25
	Publish Date:		2021-07-14 10:40:51
	Description:		Nicolet is a familiar name in the Northwoods. There are many small businesses that carry the name, a college, and perhaps most important, a National Forest. Most Northwoods residents have heard of Jean Nicolet, but how many know who he really was? Jean Nicolet is a celebrated individual in Wisconsin history and is credited as the first European to set foot in what is today the state of Wisconsin. Schoolchildren are familiar with the famous 1907 Edwin Willard Deming painting depicting Nicolet’s first landing near what is today Green Bay, and many have visited Nicolet’s statue, erected in 1950 near Red Banks where it is said that he landed. The traditional story goes that Jean Nicolet was an explorer sent west by Samuel de Champlain to find a route to China through the Great Lakes. Turning south into Lake Michigan, he landed near Red Banks just northeast of Green Bay. Making shore at a Ho Chunk village, he dressed in an elaborate Chinese robe, held two pistols in the air, and fired them
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