The Chippewas

Levin Daily Chronicle, 20 March 1917, Page 3

The Chippewas

'l'he once powerful tribe of the Chippewas, the leading Indians in Michigan for the last hundred years, says a despatch to the Ohiago Tribune from Standish, Michigan, consists now of scattering parts of .the once great gathering of these copper-coloured aborigines. The largest remnant is living near here, at Sanganing, four miles southeast of the town on the Saginaw bay at the mouth of the Saganing river, named after this tribe of Indians. Out of a flourishing tribe of 500 Indians there are scarcely left 75, old and young. Except in a few instances they do not partake of "firewater"; any more. They own little patches of ground which they farm iudustri-, ouslv, and a few own quite large farms. Through the winter they .make baskets, bead work, bircli bark canocfi, axe handles, bow and arrows, mats of bull rushes, etc.

Along up the Lake 'Huron shore there is another remnant of this tribe around Tawas City, around Petoekey, in the western part of the State, at Mackinaw, in Winconsin, at Piuconning and Bay Oity. r lhey all, especially the latter remnant of this numerous tribe, received an allowance a short time ago from'tlie Government at Washington dn money due them from the sale of lands purchased of them.