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department to the purchase from the Holland Land Company of 

 4,329 acres adjoining- their former grant. These three parcels 

 of land make up the present Tuscarora Reservation. Hither in 

 1802 came the portion of the nation whose ancestors nearly a 

 hundred years previously had made peace with the Virginia 

 government. 



The Reservation at the present time is the home of about 

 400 Tuscaroras and a very few Onondagas. On it are two 

 schools and several churches. The people are farmers whose 

 holdings are characterized by an appearance of thrift and pros- 

 perity. English is spoken by most, and a number have received 

 college or secondary school training. 



The Missisaugas, (0- 



The Missisaugas were Algonkins and belonged to the Eagle 

 clan of the Chippewa Nation. According to A. F. Chamberlain 

 (2) their name is an English version of their Chippewa name, 

 "Minzezageeg", meaning "the people who inhabit the country 

 where there are many river mouths". According to Hewitt, it 

 is derived from two Chippewa words, "Misi", meaning "large'' 

 and "Sig" or "Sauk" meaning "outlet", (3). 



When they first became known to the Europeans they lived 

 on the shores of Lake Huron, east of Sault Ste. Marie. In 

 Father Le Jeune's list of tribes known to him in 1640, they are 

 called "Oumisagai" and are described as living "after the 

 Amikoui upon the same shores of the great lake". In 1670 

 they still lived on the shores of Lake Huron, for in that year the 

 missionaries joined the mission of the "Mississakiks' ; to that at 

 Sault Ste. Marie, (4). 



Their manner of living at that time as described by the 

 Jesuit missionaries, seems precisely that of the other Algonkins 

 who existed miserably in the wilderness north of the Great 

 Lakes. They had no permanent villages, but wandered at will 

 in pursuit of game or in quest of the wild fruits of the forest. 



1. This spelling is the one used by the Bureau of Ethnology in "Hand- 

 book of American Indians". Several other forms are in use. 



2. A. F. Chamberlain, in Journal of American Folk-L,ore, Vol. i, P. 

 150, quotes Salt. 



3. Mr. Hewitt, quoted in Hand-book of American Indians, P. 909. 



4. Jesuit Relations, Vol. 57, P. 215, Burrows edition. 



