The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-05-23
INDIAN STORY.
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They made regular trips to the main
land for game and extended the raids
as far south as the Milwaukee-or as it
was then known, the Maniwacky river.
They had temporary villages near the
outlets Of all the principal rivers One
summer, about the year 1900 they found
that a large body of Chippewas had in
vaded their hunting grounds Of which
they were very jealous War was at
once proclaimed. The Braves assembled
on Washington Island, ard in paint and
feathers, with qnivers bristling with
arrows, with tomahawk and scalping
knife they set out in a large fotilla of
canoes, miniature 'Invincible Armada"
for the battle ground. But when they
reached the middle of the channel a
furious squall came up which scattered
and capsiZed the frail canoes, and hun
dreds Of the savages were drowned
For many days their bodies were washed
on the shores Of Detroit island jus
south of Washington. The Indians
buried their dead, and overcome with
superstition and dread, for had not the
Great Spirit favored the Chippewas?
They deserted these islands forever,
many of them moving to Southern
Michigan
Some years later, so writes S. G.
Stambaugh an Indian agent, large
number Of Indians We're lost near the
rock known us Table Rock, the northern.
most point of the main land There
was and is still a table in the lake al
most Immediately under the blutf, pre-
senting face of solid rock perhaps
thirty feet square A band Of Indians
in canoes on their way to some of the
Ere! CHI trading posts halted at this
place for the purpose of resting and
taking some refreshments and while
seated ON this stone table which then
projected about three feet above the
surface of the water, storm arose sud
denly, which swept over the rock 4
tremendous sea, and dashed their canoes
to pieces The bluff of rocks was too
steep to scale, and the poor creatures
having no other means Of escape, but
trusting to the waves to drive them
ashore at some distance from the fatal
spot nearly all persisted. In memory
of this fatal day, on the face Of the
rocks fifteen or twenty feet above tie
surface of the water there are figures Of
Indians and canoes painted Indian
fashion, which must have been done
with much difficulty, and by the help
of scaling ladders during a dead calm
on the lake.
Since these calamaties this channel
has been called Part DIS -HoHes, or deaths
door And to this day it deserves the
name On either end Of Pilot Island,
one Of the smallest OF the group, lies a
large grim wreck. The memorials of a
stormy night, in which three large
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little patch Of land and DESTROYED. A
pretty, red rooted lighthouse adorrs
these rocks,
As the Pottawatamies and Winneba
COS vacated some Of their ancient haunts
the Chippewas of the Lake Superior re-
gion took their places. They were a
brave and adventurous tribe, and expert
hunters. They We're generally at war
with the Sioux, the Hurons, a branch Of
the IroGuois, or with the Sacs aud Fox
es The Menomonies, People Of The wa
Rice u tribe of light complexion, tall
and we'll built, who derived their name
from the fact that wild rice was one Of
their main articles Of diet, also erected
villages i'll various parts of this country.
The bulk of their tribes dwelt west of
Green Bay, where soluo of their de-
scendants still reside on the Shawano
reservation.
The Sacs and Foxes at one time So