THE CHIPPEWAS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11955, 14 March 1917, Page 4

THE CHIPPEWAS.

The once powerful tribe of the Chippewas, the leading Indians iu Michigan for tho last hundred years, says a despatch to tho Chicago " Tribune" from Standish, Michigan, consists now of scattering parts of tho once great gathering of those copper coloured' aborigines. The largest remnant is living near here, at Saganing, five miles south-east of' town, oil Saginaw at the mouth of the Saganing River, named after this tribe or Indians. Out of a once flourishing tribe of 500 Indians there are scarcely left seventy-five, oJd, and young. Except in a few instances thev' do not partake of ''firewater" any more. They own little patches of ground, which they farm industriously, and a few own quite large farms. Through the winter thev make baskets, bead work, birch bark canoes, axe handles, bow and arrows, mats of bullrushes, etc. , v 1T , Along up the Lake Huron > shore there is another remnant of this tribe around Tawas City, around Petdskey, in the western part of the State, at Mackinaw, in Wisconsin, and other Soints in Michigan, at Pinconning, and ;ay Oity. They all, especially the latter remnant of this numerous tribe, received an allowance a short timo ago from the Government at Washington, in money dlie them, fi'om the sale cf lands purchased of them.