1634 - Jean Nicolet, French explorer, visited the Menominee Indians in Wisconsin, supposedly as the first European to do so. He discovered Menominee villages at the mouth of the Menominee River and at La Baye (now Green Bay).

Soon after, Pierre Esprit Radisson and Medard Chousart came to the Butte de Mortes - Green Bay region as Eastern tribes were fleeing west under pressure from the Iroquois Indians.

1667 - The next recorded white visitor was Nicholas Perrot, another French fur trader. He came to mediate between the Menominee's and the Potawatomi's, at odds over some intertribal killings. In the next year he took the first cargo of furs from La Baye.

1669 - Claude Allouez, Jesuit, came as a missionary to a small group of Menominee's living in the Bay area.

1671 - The French annexed the lands of the Great Lakes region by a formal act at Sault Ste. Marie. All Indian tribes of the area were declared French subjects. The way was open to the fur- trade. Fathers Allouez and Andre started a mission on the Fox River.

1673 - Joliet and Father Marquette visited the Menominee Indians.