It has been stated that she fell into the water, a circumstance which the relative situation of the rock and river would render impossible.
Writers have pretended, too, that the heroine of the rock was a Winnebago.

It is a mistake, the maiden was a Dahcotah.
It was from the Dahcotahs that I obtained the incident, and they believe that it really occurred.

They are offended if you suggest the possibility of its being a fiction.

Indeed they fix a date to it, reckoning by the occurrences of great battles, or other events worthy of notice.
But to the story--and I wish I could throw into it the feeling, and energy of the old medicine woman who related it.
About one hundred and fifty years ago, the band of Dahcotahs to which Wenona belonged, lived near Fort Snelling.

Their village was on the site now occupied by Good Road's band.
The whole band made preparations to go below Lake Pepin, after porcupines.