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Title: A brief history of Les Cheneaux Islands : some new chapters of Mackinac history
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Grover, Frank Reed, 1858-
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Publisher: Evanston, Ill. : Bowman
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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by any of their ancestors. In this little cemetery, in sight of his formerhome across the channel on Marquette Island, re- Pago 77 HISTORY OF LES CHEXEAUX ISLAXDS poses the dust of Chief Shab-wa-vvay. For sev-eral years, Indiaa burials have not been permittedin this cemetery, as the Indians failed to obtaintitle to the land, or to legally establish cemeteryrights. Many of the graves have been obliter-ated. It would certainly be an appropriate proceedingto preserve this land mark, at least, by erecting amonument, marking the site of the old chiefsgrave. Although a digression, it may here be notedthat among the Hurons there was the same mythas among the Norsemen—that the Milky Wayformed the spiritual bridge across which departedsouls reached this same immortal and covetedgoal, while the souls of dogs took another route,by certain constellations, known as the Way of theDogs, possibly the origin of our own folk-lore ex-pression going to the dogs. (Sagard Voyagedes Hurons, 233.) Par* 78
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V.PERIOD OF THE PIONEERS. FATHER ANDREW D. J. PIRET, CATHOLIC PR-IEST OF MACKINACAND LES CHENEAUX, THE FIRST PERMANENT WHITE SET-TLER, 1850—HIS MISSIONARY LABORS AMONG THE INDIANS la FERMe HOMESTEAD ON THE MAIN-LAND, NOW derbys farm and GOLF GROUNDS HIS PRFJJECESSORS AND SUCCESSORS IN MISSIONARY WORK FATHER CHAM-BON, FATHER JACKER AND FATHER WILLIAM F. GAGNIEUR, S. J. OF SAULT STE MARIE PROTESTANT CHURCHES WILLIAM A. PATRICK, AN EARLY PIONEER—OTHER PIO-NEERS—SUDDEN CHANGE OF LES CHENEAUX FROM INDIAN CAMPS TO SUMMER HOMES A TRIP ON THE MAIN-LAND FROM LES CHENEAUX TO THE SAULT—FATHER PIRET, THECHARACTER PERE MICHAUX IN THE MACKINAC NOVELANNE. The history of the pioneers and early permanentsettlers of most localities, especially in and east ofthe Mississippi valley, generally includes an ex-tended period of time, covering in some places,more than a century. The pioneer period, is gen-erally supposed to mean those years interveningbetween the Indian occupation and that periodwhen

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