Roadside markers:

Mansfield Township, Michigan: "July 4th, 1661...As a matter of conjecture Father Menard somewhere along this river either died or was murdered while on his way southward from L'Anse to visit the Menominee Indians." (46° 05' 01" N | 88° 13' 25" W)

Merrill, Wisconsin: "In Honor Of Pere Rene Menard. / Born at Paris Sept. 7th, 1605 / Entered the Jesuit Order Nov. 7th, 1624. / Sailed for Quebec in Mach 1840. Lost hereabouts in July 1661, while enroute to Huron village to baptize Indian refugees. / Erected in 1923 By Merrill council, 1133 Knights of Columbus, aided by the Wisconsin State Council." (45° 14' 53" N | 89° 47' 23" W).

Secondary and Background sources:

Chung, Patrick J., The Misunderstood Mission of Jean Nicolet: Uncovering the Story of the 1634 Journey. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2018. Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel New York: Norton, 1997.

Kafka, Frans The Trial Berlin: Verlag Die Schmiede, 1925.

Kellog, Louise P. "The First Missionary in Wisconsin" Wisconsin Magazine of History vol. 4 no. 4 (June 1921) Menasha: George Banta Publishing Company.

Marshall, Albert M. Brule Country St. Paul, MN: The North Central Publishing Company, 1954, 12, 14

Monet, J. "Fr. René Ménard" Dictionary of Canadian Biography in 1966 (revised in 1979 and 2017).

Stannard, David. American Holocaust Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Stewart, Alexander M. and John S. Allen René Menard 1605-1661: A Life Story Which Connects the Finger Lakes Region of New York with France, Québec, Georgian Bay and Wisconsin Rochester: A. Stewart, 1934 [bikexprt.com].

Treuer, David The Heartbeaet of Wounded Knee New York: Riverhead Books, 2019.