Northern MichiganHandbook for travelers, including the northern part of lower Michigan, Mackinac island, and the Sault SteMarie river .. . is inseparablyconnected with Indian story of its name is as fol-. CHfEF PETOSKEY, lows In 1787 one Nee-i-too-shing, a chief of the Chippewatribe, had born to him at sunrise, in his wigwam onthe banks of the Manistee River, a son, whom he namedPe-to-se-ga, meaning the rising sun. This chief tan 92 moved northward with his famil} and in time took uphis abode on Little Traverse Bay near Harbor was the boyhood home of Pe-to-se-g-a,
Northern MichiganHandbook for travelers, including the northern part of lower Michigan, Mackinac island, and the Sault SteMarie river .. . is inseparablyconnected with Indian story of its name is as fol-. CHfEF PETOSKEY, lows In 1787 one Nee-i-too-shing, a chief of the Chippewatribe, had born to him at sunrise, in his wigwam onthe banks of the Manistee River, a son, whom he namedPe-to-se-ga, meaning the rising sun. This chief tan 92 moved northward with his famil} and in time took uphis abode on Little Traverse Bay near Harbor was the boyhood home of Pe-to-se-g-a, and whenhe was twenty-two years old he married and settledhere in a home of his own. Many years later, owincrto religious differences between himself and the Catholicpriests to whose domination he declined to submit, hemoved to the other side of the bay and took up his abodeon the g-round now occupied by the city which wascalled after him, Petoskey being- an unhappy corruptionof Pe-to-se-g-a. Previous to this, for many years Little TraverseBay had been the center of Catholic missionary opera-tions. More than two hundred years ag-o FatherMarquette was wont to visit here with his companions,and the Marquette trail
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