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| 3 | 3 | | 2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE |
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| 4 | 4 | | 2023 ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTIO N 62 |
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| 5 | 5 | | July 17, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives OLDENBURG, BALDEH, JOERS, |
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| 6 | 6 | | O'CONNOR, OHNSTAD, SHANKLAND, STUBBS, SUBECK and TRANEL, cosponsored by |
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| 7 | 7 | | Senators PFAFF, CARPENTER, COWLES and ROYS. Referred to Committee on |
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| 8 | 8 | | Rules. |
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| 9 | 9 | | ***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*** |
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| 10 | 10 | | Relating to: proclaiming June 17, 2023, Prairie du Chien Day. |
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| 11 | 11 | | Whereas, 350 years ago, Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet set out |
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| 12 | 12 | | from Michigan to explore the waterways from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi |
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| 13 | 13 | | River; and |
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| 14 | 14 | | Whereas, Father Marquette was a French-born Jesuit missionary and Joliet |
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| 15 | 15 | | was a fur trader and mapmaker; and |
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| 16 | 16 | | Whereas, in 1673, Father Marquette and Joliet led an expedition to map the |
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| 17 | 17 | | land and waterways in this region of America for the French; and |
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| 18 | 18 | | Whereas, Native Americans had lived in the area and traveled these waterways |
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| 19 | 19 | | for thousands of years prior to Father Marquette and Joliet, and helped them |
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| 20 | 20 | | navigate on their expedition; and |
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| 21 | 21 | | Whereas, Father Marquette and Joliet arrived in Prairie du Chien on June 17, |
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| 22 | 22 | | 1673, where they entered the Mississippi River and traveled south for hundreds of |
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| 23 | 23 | | miles; and |
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| 41 | 41 | | Whereas, Father Marquette and Joliet's expedition confirmed for the French |
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| 42 | 42 | | that it was possible to travel by water from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico; |
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| 43 | 43 | | and |
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| 44 | 44 | | Whereas, this confirmation and the information gathered from the expedition |
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| 45 | 45 | | led to the establishment of French trading posts across the region, and the settlement |
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| 46 | 46 | | of Prairie du Chien and other cities; and |
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| 47 | 47 | | Whereas, Prairie du Chien will hold a community festival June 16 through |
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| 48 | 48 | | June 18 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of this expedition; now, therefore, |
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| 49 | 49 | | be it |
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| 50 | 50 | | Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the Wisconsin |
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| 51 | 51 | | Legislature hereby proclaims June 17, 2023, Prairie du Chien Day, in honor of the |
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| 52 | 52 | | 350th expedition anniversary. |
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