PIONEER HUNTERS OF THE KANKAK.EE 

 There were four or five Indians living on the is- 

 land at this time and among them lived an old 

 Indian and his aged squaw by the name of 

 Sheubane. He was at the Ft. Dearborn massa- 

 cre and saved a great many of the whites. He 

 was over eighty years of age when found on 

 this island by the white hunters in the winter of 

 1858 and of whom I obtained this narrative. 

 Sheubana lived with his squaw and two little 

 grandchildren in a wigwam on French Island 

 where LaBonta found old rxillbuck dead in the 

 winter of 1857. "One day" said the hunter 

 "whilst a couple of us were out hunting we 

 passed the wigwam of Sheubana and found his 

 poor old squaw and the children in great distress. 

 They informed us that Sheubana had started 

 down the river to hunt and been gone for three 

 days and they knew that something had hap- 

 pened him or he would have been back. As 

 they were out of meat and nearly starved we 

 fed them the best we could and called out all 

 our force and started to hunt for him. We had 



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