Complex sentence: The Baw Beese band of natives had their maize fields, hunting, fishing, and meeting grounds within Hillsdale County, Michigan, but lesser chiefs of the Baw Beese family lived in surrounding counties in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana.
Split into simpler sentences: The Baw Beese band of natives had their maize fields, hunting, fishing, and meeting grounds within Hillsdale County, Michigan. Other chiefs of the Baw Beese family lived in surrounding counties in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana.