General History / Native Settlers: Page 6

Pictorials

Indian Camp: This sketch is a part of the Smithsonian Institution collection. It depicts a typical Chippewa camp. Notice the dome type wigwam that is associated with the Chippewas. These wigwams were roughly 15 feet in diameter and made from strips of birth bark.

Indian Memorial Oak Ridge Cemetery - Bay City, MI - Inscription - Ah-nwa-che-mo-no-min-ning Resting Place O Saah-wah-shko-be-ha-sa John Green Bird Ke-che-ah-no-quot Wash-sa-gee-z-hig James Cloud . David-ah-boa-quam Kee-z-hog-koo Jacob Graverod Nee-be-nah-kah-yah-be Many Others ______________ "I am going O my people On a long and distant journey To the portals of the sunset To the regions of the home winds." -- Longfellow

The memorial plaque is mounted to a boulder in Roosevelt. President Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States serving from 1801 to 1809.

Memorial to Chief O-ge-ma Ke-ga-to Roosevelt Park - Bay City, MI - Inscription - THIS BOULDER IS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF O-GE-MA KE-GA-TO CHIEF SPEAKER OF THE CHIPPEWAS BORN ABOUT 1794, ELECTED CHIEF 1815, SPOKE AT THREATY 1819, SPOKE BEFORE CONGRESS, 1837, DIED, 1840. FIRST BURIED ON PROPERTY NOW KNOWN AS TWENTY SECOND AND WATER STREETS. IN COLONEL'S UNIFORM OF THE AMREICAN REVOLUTION - A GIFT FROM PRESIDENT JEFFERSON, WHO WAS IMPRESSED WITH HIS GREAT ELOQUENCE AND INTELLIGENCE. REBURIED IN 1877 ON PROPERTY OF WILLIAM R. McCORMICK, HIS REMAINS NOW REST BENEATH THIS STONE IN THE LOCALITY WHERE HE HELD HIS COUNCILS __________________ PLACED BY ANNE FRISBY FITZHUGH CHAPTER, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION JULY 4, 1923