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must go.” He soon manfully put his affairs in order, resigned his office 
and went home to his people on the Island of the Manito. “There is,” 
he said, “a beautiful grove in my people’s old camping ground. I will 
go and end my days there.” He died on November 21st, 1863, and his 
last resting place is at Wikwemikong. 
GITCHI NA1IGOU, LE GRAND SABLE. On May 12th, 1781, Gitchi 
Naigou and other Chippewa chiefs, in consideration of £5,000 New 
York currency, surrendered to King George the Island of Michillimaci- 
nac, then called La Grosse Isle, and they promised to “preserve in their 
village a belt of wampum, to perpetuate, secure and be a lasting 
memorial of the said transaction.” 
Gitchi Naigou is connected in history with the taking of Maci- 
nac by the Chippewas and Sacs in 1763. He was absent when the 
Fort was taken, and when he arrived found many white prisoners. 
Entering a lodge where they were bound, he murdered seven of these 
helpless people, whose bodies were used in a horrid cannibal feast which 
followed, as related by Henry, the early trader. 
Under the name of LeGrand Sable, Gitchi Naigou lived for many 
years after. When old and feeble he longed to go with his friends to 
the spring sugar camp, but his physical powers were unequal to the task. 
Then his daughter, Nadowaqua, came to his help, and carried him on 
her back fully ten miles to the maple woods on the banks of Lake 
Michigan. She was renowned for this pious feat. Mr. Schoolcraft gives 
the story, with an illustration of the devoted daughter bending under her 
living burden, saying she imitated the feat of A‘neas bearing Anchises 
from the flames of Troy.(Z) 
It is seldom that the women were mentioned in Indian treaties, 
though they were not always excluded from the Council, but in three 
treaties made by the gallant Governor Simcoe at Navy Hall in 1792 the 
“principal women” are included along with Sachems and war chiefs.(z) 
It would be interesting to sketch the character of other Algic chiefs 
who led their people and took part in inducing them to make terms with 
the advancing white man. Such was Sweet-Grass, the Cree, a brave and 
eloquent warrior whose influence was great in effecting the Fort Carleton 
treaties. He unfortunately died soon after from the accidental discharge 
of a pistol.(v) 
(4) ‘Indian Tribes,” 4, 49. 2 
(z) ‘Blue Book Canadian Indian Treaties,’ Nos. 3, 3% and 4. 
(v) ‘‘ What the great Chief Crowfoot was to the Blackfeet, so was Sweet-Grass to the Crees.” Thus 
begins an interesting story, ‘‘ The Conversion of Sweet-Grass,” by W. A. Fraser in Canadian Magazine, 
Vol. 12, 403. 
