Bay County past and present . ase—they became possessed with theidea that the Manesous were in their immediate vicinity, they wouldfly as if for their lives, abandoning everything—wigwams, fish, gameand all their camp equipage, and no amount of ridicule from thewhites could convince them of their folly. Some of the Indian bandswhose country joined that of the Saginaws, played upon their weaksuperstition and derived profit from it by lurking around their vil-lages or camps, frightening them into flight and then appropriatingthe property which they had abandoned. (2) REFERENCES. Michigan Pioneer
Bay County past and present . ase—they became possessed with theidea that the Manesous were in their immediate vicinity, they wouldfly as if for their lives, abandoning everything—wigwams, fish, gameand all their camp equipage, and no amount of ridicule from thewhites could convince them of their folly. Some of the Indian bandswhose country joined that of the Saginaws, played upon their weaksuperstition and derived profit from it by lurking around their vil-lages or camps, frightening them into flight and then appropriatingthe property which they had abandoned. (2) REFERENCES. Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections. See list in Appendix underthe Sauk Indians. Gansser—Pages 2 8, 29, 32-3 7. Bay County History, 1883^^Pages 9-11. History, Commercial Advantages and Future Prospects of Bay City, 1875—Henry S. Dow. Pages 1-3. Thomas and Galatias Pioneer Directory of the Saginaw Valley, 18 66 and1867. Pages 33-38. Wah Sash Kah Moqua. Pages 82-89. (1) XXII. 245. (2) VIII. 249. 32 BAY COUNTY, PAST AND OO u m O) m oQ NATIVE LIFE—THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS. 33 Chapter VIII.—NATIVE LIFE. THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS. 00^HE majority of the Indians who remained and made theirnn j homes in the Saginaw Valley belonged to the Chippewa,?*? I also known as the Ojibway, tribe. Mingling as they did withseveral other tribes, their language and some of their cus-toms differed somewhat from the more northern ChippewaIndians, and they came to be kno^vn to the white people as the Sag-inaw Indians. They, like the Ottawas, Hurons, Potawatomies, Menominees andothers, were of the Algonquin race, and although they frequentlyfought these other tribes, they would unite with them against a com-mon enemy. The Saginaw Valley, probably because it could be reach-ed easily from all directions, was often made the meeting place ofcouncils of these various tribes. The last great tribal meeting washeld as late as 1865, at Wenona Village, about three miles from themouth of the river. This was, as
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