please send me these emails thank you mary ----- Original Message ----- From: Vern D. Weller <vern@torchlake.com> To: <NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 6:28 AM Subject: [NISHNAWBE] Kewadin Those who are seeking additional information on Potawatomy Kewaydin (Kewadin) I am sending 4 small pages, in separate emails, so as to not overload your email box, from a book "Pioneer Notes by Trek and Sail to Grand Traverse Bay" (wop) from the notes of Grace Hooper. Grace Hooper, while a time parameter is not given in the book, was a correspondent with the Central Lake Torch and walked the entire Antrim area in Michigan, North of Traverse City to Charlevoix and while doing this work, she embarked on a personal project to record the histories and experiences of every person living or working in the area. It is interesting that Kewadin escaped the forced removal in 1840 of the Potawatomies from Michigan to "beyond the Mississippi" by the US Army commanded by General Brady. Page 57 notes a treaty of 1821 with the Potawatomy and a second of 1826 and finally a third of 1836 with the Ottawa and Chippewa. Is this the reason? Kewadin was now an Ottawa/Chippewa? Scholars where are! you? Hope the clues provided in the text will be aid someone’s research. ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

I am the grt grt grandson of Kewadin, and he was Odawa/Ottawa, not Pottawatami. Please get your research straight, to suggest such is offensive . I am proud of my heritage. Emery A. Iliff. ----- Original Message ----- From: "ray&mary" <yaaker@rangeweb.net> To: <NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 10:32 AM Subject: Re: [NISHNAWBE] Kewadin please send me these emails thank you mary ----- Original Message ----- From: Vern D. Weller <vern@torchlake.com> To: <NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 6:28 AM Subject: [NISHNAWBE] Kewadin Those who are seeking additional information on Potawatomy Kewaydin (Kewadin) I am sending 4 small pages, in separate emails, so as to not overload your email box, from a book "Pioneer Notes by Trek and Sail to Grand Traverse Bay" (wop) from the notes of Grace Hooper. Grace Hooper, while a time parameter is not given in the book, was a correspondent with the Central Lake Torch and walked the entire Antrim area in Michigan, North of Traverse City to Charlevoix and while doing this work, she embarked on a personal project to record the histories and experiences of every person living or working in the area. It is interesting that Kewadin escaped the forced removal in 1840 of the Potawatomies from Michigan to "beyond the Mississippi" by the US Army commanded by General Brady. Page 57 notes a treaty of 1821 with the Potawatomy and a second of 1826 and finally a third of 1836 with the Ottawa and Chippewa. Is this the reason? Kewadin was now an Ottawa/Chippewa? Scholars where are! you? Hope the clues provided in the text will be aid someone’s research. ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

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Please send me the addional emails. Thanks, Dodi From: "Vern D. Weller" <vern@torchlake.com> Subject: [NISHNAWBE] Kewadin

Those who are seeking additional information on Potawatomy Kewaydin (Kewadin) I am sending 4 small pages, in separate emails, so as to not overload your email box, from a book "Pioneer Notes by Trek and Sail to Grand Traverse Bay" (wop) from the notes of Grace Hooper. Grace Hooper, while a time parameter is not given in the book, was a correspondent with the Central Lake Torch and walked the entire Antrim area in Michigan, North of Traverse City to Charlevoix and while doing this work, she embarked on a personal project to record the histories and experiences of every person living or working in the area. It is interesting that Kewadin escaped the forced removal in 1840 of the Potawatomies from Michigan to "beyond the Mississippi" by the US Army commanded by General Brady. Page 57 notes a treaty of 1821 with the Potawatomy and a second of 1826 and finally a third of 1836 with the Ottawa and Chippewa. Is this the reason? Kewadin was now an Ottawa/Chippewa? Scholars where are! you? Hope the clues provided in the text will be aid someone’s research.

Hi everyone; I was wondering of someone knew the translation for the name AIAJOWAJIK Thanks in advance Cindy L.

In a message dated 3/11/2004 8:38:06 AM Central Standard Time, NISHNAWBE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: The answer Joyce, has to be the wild and beautiful mountains. Basic love for wild country ingrained in my genetic ancestry. tomahawk4172@surf1.ws Emery, Thank you! A number of yrs. ago we lived at Port Angeles, while my husband was working on a construction job. It has been so long ago, I had almost forgotten how beautiful it was up there. It all makes sense now, when I think about it. Thank you for the response. Joyce W

>I live in Minnesota, and although it may not be correct, we all call them "prairie chicken", even though it's the same ruffed grouse ! > -Heather Some notes on Grouses and their pals ... The Ruffed will come off the grasslands and is found in deciduous forests; the Spruce Grouse is found in non-deciduous forests, and both would have been within the common experience of Anishinaabeg ( Tom - the Spruce Grouse may be at the heart of the Baraga entry ? ). There is also a Sharp Tailed Grouse found in a narrow range across the UP / Manitoulin where habitat is grassland / aspen -- will overlap some with Ruffed, but is smaller & darker. The Prairie Chickens -- there are Greater and Lesser species -- are grassland birds of much narrower range and only the Greater would have been in Anishinaabeg experience, and only in small habitats west of the lakes. There is a well-established range in central Wisconsin even today. The fact that some of these birds are frequently cross-identified in normal conversation is pretty good indication, I think, that it is reasonable to think that Baraga was referring to Grouse rather than partridge (which wasn't introduced) or Prairie Chicken (which had such a narrow range). regards - rdw

There is a reference to Chief Ca-sha-o-sha in Chippewa Village by W.V. Kinietz (Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 1947) on pp.19-20. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorrie" <ljmadden55@charter.net> To: <NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:21 PM Subject: [NISHNAWBE] RE: Michigan Ancestors. > To any of the members who live in Michigan. I am looking for information on Chief Casheosha. He was a prominent chief around the Lac Vieux Desert area. He was one of the signers on the 1842 treaty with the Chippewas. He also was written about in Thomas Cram's survey report in 1840. He also met with another surveyor by the name of Burt in 1842 at zero mile post. His name is spelled Casheosha; Kasheosha; Kesheosha; > > I saw an unverified report which says his baptismal name was John Edwards; That he had a young wife named Pentoga. I know she is the one that Pentoga Park is named after. Her husband was Chief John Edwards from Iron County. > > If anyone has any information or advice as where to go to get the information I would appreciate it. > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

Casha-o-sha? Midwest Pioneers: Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Vol. 19 9th Thursday.Le Petit Forgeron, a Savage from the Vieux D�sert 61 came here yesterday evening. I traded with him and Note: 61 The term Vieux D�sert has often been mistranslated as Lake of the Desert, "the old deserted place," etc. Doty was more nearly correct in speaking of it, as "Old Plantation;" seeWis. Hist. Colls., vii, p. 202. The term in Canadian-French means an old clearing, and was translation in its turn of the Indian termGete Kitigan--old land under cultivation. The remains of cultivation can still be seen on the principal island in this lake, upon which the Wisconsin-Michigan boundary line impinges. Lac Vieux D�sert is one of the oldest sites on the map of Wisconsin. It was there that in 1661 Father Ren� M�nard waited two weeks for the Huron who had deserted him, only later to lose his life upon Wisconsin River which issues from this lake; see Henry Colin Campbell, "Father M�nard," in Parkman ClubPapers, No. 11. The name first appears on a map of 1718 prepared by Guillaume de l'Isle from the memoirs of those who had visited this country; it is, however, there erroneously made the sou! rce of one branch of the Chippewa (or "Bons Secours") River, and it was so represented throughout the French period. In 1820, Doty makes it the source both of one branch of the Chippewa, and the Menominee of Green Bay. The map used by the makers of the boundary between Michigan and Wisconsin gave Lee Vieux D�sert as the source of the Montreal, and it was thus made a cardinal point in the northeast boundary of Wisconsin. It was not until Cram's survey of 1840 that the true position of this lake as the source of Wisconsin River was determined. Thence it was made the starting point of the survey of 1847 that finally marked the boundary. The Indian village was apparently on the north side of the lake; Cram calls it "Katakitakon." While engaged in his survey, the chief of this band, whom he names Cashaosha. opposed his progress until given a written promise that the right of way should be purchased by the government. In reality the land had all been sold to the United States by the tre! aty of 1842; but the chief again threatened to oppose Burt's survey of 1847, until mollified by valuable presents. In 1854 a treaty at La Pointe allotted considerable reservation for this band, then spoken of as large and important. It is now consolidated with the band of Anse Keweenaw, living on a reservation at the latter place, on the upper peninsula of Michigan A Wisconsins Fur-Traders Journal, 1804-05 By Francois Victor MalhiotIt was not until Cram�s survey of 1840 that the true position of this lake as the source of Wisconsin River was determined. Thence, it was made the starting point of the survey of 1847 that finally marked the boundary. The Indian village was apparently on the north side of the lake; Cram calls it �Katakitakon.� While engaged in his survey, the chief of this band, whom he names Cashaosha, opposed his progress until given a written promise that the right of way shoudl be purchased by the government. In reality the land had all been sold to the United States by the treaty of 1842; but the chief again threatened to opposed Burt�s survey of 1847, until mollified by valuable presents. In 1854 a treaty at La Pointe allotted a considerable reservation for this band, then spoken of as large and important. It is now consolidated with the band of Anse Keweenaw, living on a reservation at the latter place, on the upper pennisula of Michigan. -ED "James P. LaLone" <jplalone@prodigy.net> wrote: There is a reference to Chief Ca-sha-o-sha in Chippewa Village by W.V. Kinietz (Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 1947) on pp.19-20. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorrie" To: Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:21 PM Subject: [NISHNAWBE] RE: Michigan Ancestors. > To any of the members who live in Michigan. I am looking for information on Chief Casheosha. He was a prominent chief around the Lac Vieux Desert area. He was one of the signers on the 1842 treaty with the Chippewas. He also was written about in Thomas Cram's survey report in 1840. He also met with another surveyor by the name of Burt in 1842 at zero mile post. His name is spelled Casheosha; Kasheosha; Kesheosha; > > I saw an unverified report which says his baptismal name was John Edwards; That he had a young wife named Pentoga. I know she is the one that Pentoga Park is named after. Her husband was Chief John Edwards from Iron County. > > If anyone has any information or advice as where to go to get the information I would appreciate it. > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster.

Historic Name: Mile Post Zero-Treaty Tree Location: T42N-R36W Section 18 (point where Brule River leaves Brule Lake) Date established: 1840 Ownership: public History: As part of the settlement of the "Toledo War," between Michigan and Ohio, most of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was granted to Michigan for the "Toledo Strip" which was granted to Ohio. Captain Thomas Cram, of the U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers, conducted a reconnaissance exploration and established the Mile Corner Zero in 1840 and the route of the line in 1841. He made a treaty for passage with Chief Ca-Sha-O-Sha and his band of Ojibwa (Chippewa) near a large tamarack tree near the Mile Corner Zero at the Brule River. About this favorite lake and on its Islands, the Chief - Ca-sha-o-sha, takes up his summer residence; but on the approach of winter migrates with his Band towards the south - following the Deer for the winter hunt. Some of the hunters disperse themselves along down the Wiskonsin River and others down on the branch of the Menomonee called Mus-Kos Se-pe (Sepe is the Chippewa for river) can it also be: Cashauska Previously in 1840, during a state boundary reconnaissance survey by Captain Thomas J. Cram, a treaty between the U.S. Government and Ojibwa Tribe Chief Ca-sha-o-sha was scribed on birch bark at a meeting site on the bank of Lac Brule lake near a Tamarack tree, called the "Treaty Tree". During his state boundary survey, Mr. Burt also reportedly met with the Ojibwa tribe at the "Treaty Tree", commonly referred to since to be the 18" Tamarack that he had faced and scribed, but which is now marked by a capped concrete monument, as the blazed and scribed Tamarack stump was removed and is now displayed in a museum at Marquette, Michigan. 13 MILE POST ZERO & TREATY TREE Continue on Ottawa Lake Road 7 more miles. Visit the site where Captain Thomas Cram placed the first marker at the survey point establishing the Wisconsin-Michigan state boundary in 1840. As part of the settlement of the "Toledo War" between Michigan and Ohio, most of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was granted to Michigan for the "Toledo Strip" which was granted to Ohio. He made a treaty for passage with Chief Ca-Sha-O-Sha and the band of Ojibwa (Chippewa) near a large tamarack tree at the headwaters of the Brule River. Casha-o-sha? "James P. LaLone" <jplalone@prodigy.net> wrote: There is a reference to Chief Ca-sha-o-sha in Chippewa Village by W.V. Kinietz (Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 1947) on pp.19-20. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorrie" To: Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:21 PM Subject: [NISHNAWBE] RE: Michigan Ancestors. > To any of the members who live in Michigan. I am looking for information on Chief Casheosha. He was a prominent chief around the Lac Vieux Desert area. He was one of the signers on the 1842 treaty with the Chippewas. He also was written about in Thomas Cram's survey report in 1840. He also met with another surveyor by the name of Burt in 1842 at zero mile post. His name is spelled Casheosha; Kasheosha; Kesheosha; > > I saw an unverified report which says his baptismal name was John Edwards; That he had a young wife named Pentoga. I know she is the one that Pentoga Park is named after. Her husband was Chief John Edwards from Iron County. > > If anyone has any information or advice as where to go to get the information I would appreciate it. > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster.

Hi All, The Voyageurs are now back on the St. Boniface site. http://www.shsb.mb.ca/dbtw-wpd/textbase/Voyageur/rechvoyageur.htm Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: <Trashound@aol.com> To: <NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 9:35 AM Subject: Re: [NISHNAWBE] voyageurs site disappeared! > Betty - I have been frustrated by that as well. I sent them an email about a > month ago inquiring about the site and received no response. I am hoping > they are adding to it, but can find no announcement about it. Does anyone on > this list live there who would be willing to make a visit and give us the scoop? > I'm wondering if they are going to the subscription method like the PRDH. I > would definately be willing to send them the money for that! I guess we just > have to wait until they update their site! Happy researching, Terry > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > >

Betty - I have been frustrated by that as well. I sent them an email about a month ago inquiring about the site and received no response. I am hoping they are adding to it, but can find no announcement about it. Does anyone on this list live there who would be willing to make a visit and give us the scoop? I'm wondering if they are going to the subscription method like the PRDH. I would definately be willing to send them the money for that! I guess we just have to wait until they update their site! Happy researching, Terry

that's funny, I have always been drawn to Mackinac...I don't understand it either, but every time I move I get just a little bit closer! I am originally from South Bend IN...and there was one time my family and me went down to camp at a pow wow in Muncie IN....to me, the vibes were bad down there, and I just wanted to get back home up north... I am in Reed City now about 2.5 hours from Mackinac... Cindy -------Original Message------- From: ahall Date: 03/10/04 20:20:02 To: NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NISHNAWBE] Emery A. Iliff This question interests me too... I live in Montana. Citizen Band Potawatomi member. Have always been drawn to the canadian mountains as a kid... from missouri originally... Made it to USA rocky mountains... Would be interested if that was a native calling... As it is ... I live in the boonies at the base of a mountain with my german shephard dogs... do not socialize much. Respectfully, anita > Would you mind if I asked what was it about the NW that drew so many > different tribal members. > Joyce W ----- Original Message ----- From: <Goatcreekm@aol.com> To: <NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 11:26 AM Subject: [NISHNAWBE] Re: NISHNAWBE-D Digest V04 #41 > In a message dated 3/10/2004 8:20:09 AM Central Standard Time, > NISHNAWBE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > My reservation is based in Harbor > Springs, Mi. I am an Odawa Elder. Emery A. Iliff (PS. I now live in NE > Wa.state. > Emery, > Would you mind if I asked what was it about the NW that drew so many > different tribal members. > Joyce W > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

To any of the members who live in Michigan. I am looking for information on Chief Casheosha. He was a prominent chief around the Lac Vieux Desert area. He was one of the signers on the 1842 treaty with the Chippewas. He also was written about in Thomas Cram's survey report in 1840. He also met with another surveyor by the name of Burt in 1842 at zero mile post. His name is spelled Casheosha; Kasheosha; Kesheosha; I saw an unverified report which says his baptismal name was John Edwards; That he had a young wife named Pentoga. I know she is the one that Pentoga Park is named after. Her husband was Chief John Edwards from Iron County. If anyone has any information or advice as where to go to get the information I would appreciate it.

Larry, This is what I was able to find out from some tribal members of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. Our neighbor helped in getting some information from the Elders and forwarded it to me. This is a long one as I had a couple responses, one being an article about Kewadin. I live in Kewadin, MI Here is the Info: Miigwetch. Ann Seaman, kcsinc@chartermi.net -----Original Message----- From: Chambers, Jack Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 11:18 AM To: Twocrow, Connie Subject: RE: Do you know the answer? [Fwd: [NISHNAWBE] Fwd: Chief Kewadin] Connie, the only Kewadin I know about was not a chief but he definitely was a medicine person and not a nice one, from what I gather. The story I remember is when he became very old he asked the church if he could be buried with his people, well because of his reputation as a bearwalker they refused him entrance into the church cemetery so he asked if he could be buried out side the fence so he could be near his people, the church agreed well after many years of growth the cemetery had to be enlarged and they had to move the fence. Where did they put Kewadins bones right in the middle of the cemetery. Back about 15 years ago they discovered some unidentifiably remains in the cemetery in Kewadin and they asked if I could be a part of the reburial, I asked my teacher at that time and he recommended I not even touch the bones of that old man, he was very adamant about the power that the old man possessed. I don't know if that will help at all. Jack AND - -----Original Message----- From: Twocrow, Connie Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 10:18 AM To: Pelcher, Theresa Subject: Kewadin - maybe if someone followed this story, info could be found KEWADIN Antrim County, Michigan Few people today are old enough to remember the Ottawa Indian village three miles north of Elk Rapids at the tip of Elk Lake. White people called it Indiantown. The Indians called it Wekwagamaw, which very loosely translated means "the bay at the end of the lake." There used to be a sign with that name on it to mark the site, but that's gone now and so is the village, although two or three Indian families still live in the neighborhood. Nobody knew how long the village had been there. But there were Ottawas in Michigan long before Columbus "discovered" America. And since the village lay on a branch of the Mackinaw Trail, paleo-Indians probably camped there for several thousand years. In February 1884, the Elk Rapids Progress reported the death of Kewaydin (North Wind) chief of the band at Wekwagamaw, after whom the present village was named. Nobody knew the chief's age, either, but he must have been crowding 100 if it was true, as he said, that he had served against the British under head chief Aishquagwonaba in the War of 1812, participating in the massacre of River Raisin. Kewaydin was the greatest hunter and trapper in the region. Regularly each spring he would show up with a pack of furs twice as large as anyone else's. Kewaydin was also a witch doctor and sorcerer. In his medicine chest were the skins of eight species of snakes, plus toads and lizards, and a stuffed beaver, which he said, upon being fed the "bad medicine" made from the crawly things, would snort fire from its nostrils and scoot along the floor. The chief's word was law. For people he wished to punish he had a hex that never failed. He'd draw a picture of the offender on birch bark, then smear an arrowhead with the "bad medicine" and stab the point of it into the heart or head of the culprit's image, thus killing or driving him crazy. But the chief was a benevolent dictator and only exercised such powers when the nature of the crime warranted. His people feared him, but they also liked and respected him. Kewaydin had a traditional Indian funeral with "modern" trimmings. He lay neatly dressed in an open coffin along with artifical flowers, his hunting knife, a small quantity of corn for seed in the spirit land, two extra white linen collars in case the one he wore became soiled on the expected four days' journey, cotton cloth for a tent, and most curious of all, a long leather strap with a hook attached. The latter was for use for scaling the walls of the "celestial city" if he was refused admittance. With regard to the strap and hook for climbing the walls to heaven, the Elk Rapids Progress story had this to say: "There is many a man deems himself among the elect who would do well to imitate this custom, for many will need a longer strap than poor old untutored Kewaydin." From GHOST TOWNS OF MICHIGAN - Vol. II, by Larry Wakefield. Used with permission. Larry Cartwright wrote: >--- Larry Cartwright <mgunr@yahoo.com> wrote: > > >>Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:47:56 -0800 (PST) >>From: Larry Cartwright <mgunr@yahoo.com> >>Subject: Chief Kewadin >>To: NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com >> >>Does anyone out there know what clan Chief Kewadin >>was >>in ? He died in 1884, I believe in Kewadin,Mi., and >>I >>believe he was in the Grand Traverse Band. >> >>===== >>Larry L. Cartwright >> >>__________________________________ >> >>

The answer Joyce, has to be the wild and beautiful mountains. Basic love for wild country ingrained in my genetic ancestry. tomahawk4172@surf1.ws ----- Original Message ----- From: <Goatcreekm@aol.com> To: <NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 10:26 AM Subject: [NISHNAWBE] Re: NISHNAWBE-D Digest V04 #41 > In a message dated 3/10/2004 8:20:09 AM Central Standard Time, > NISHNAWBE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > My reservation is based in Harbor > Springs, Mi. I am an Odawa Elder. Emery A. Iliff (PS. I now live in NE > Wa.state. > Emery, > Would you mind if I asked what was it about the NW that drew so many > different tribal members. > Joyce W > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

agreed....anita ----- Original Message ----- From: "Spiritdove" <imburgia@whidbey.com> To: <NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [NISHNAWBE] Re: NISHNAWBE-D Digest V04 #41 > I'll be anxious to hear what Emery has to say! > I just wanted to add that I live in Washington State also. N.W. I can tell > you the Indians that live around here have many beautiful reservations, many > around water or on water. Many with the view of Mountians covered with snow! > The N.W. was the last Frontier! It is still wild in alot of places! Well, > Alaska is the very LAST frontier...but its really cold! The N.W. is really > nice most of the year. We have our share of rain but it makes all things > beautiful and very green. Washington is known as the "Evergreen State!" I > love to live in the trees near a lake. A 10 minute drive in any direction > brings me to area beaches. The private beach I love is a 15 minute drive. I > walked it today in the sunshine and I was the only one on the beach!!! Very > peaceful! When we go out on the water we are greeted by everything from Bald > Eagles to Orca Whales! It is a beautiful and wonderful world out there! In > our woods we have deer, coyotes, rabbits, squirrells, racoons...etc. My > mailbox faces a lake! My home faces a creek! At anyrate, Indians seem to > love beauty and wildlife and a feeling of bigness with peace. To live close > to nature and appreciate it. It brings alot of healing. Just my opinion. > > Spiritdove ~v~ > > > on 3/10/04 10:26 AM, Goatcreekm@aol.com at Goatcreekm@aol.com wrote: > > > In a message dated 3/10/2004 8:20:09 AM Central Standard Time, > > NISHNAWBE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > My reservation is based in Harbor > > Springs, Mi. I am an Odawa Elder. Emery A. Iliff (PS. I now live in NE > > Wa.state. > > Emery, > > Would you mind if I asked what was it about the NW that drew so many > > different tribal members. > > Joyce W > > > > > > ============================== > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

This question interests me too... I live in Montana. Citizen Band Potawatomi member. Have always been drawn to the canadian mountains as a kid... from missouri originally... Made it to USA rocky mountains... Would be interested if that was a native calling... As it is ... I live in the boonies at the base of a mountain with my german shephard dogs... do not socialize much. Respectfully, anita > Would you mind if I asked what was it about the NW that drew so many > different tribal members. > Joyce W ----- Original Message ----- From: <Goatcreekm@aol.com> To: <NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 11:26 AM Subject: [NISHNAWBE] Re: NISHNAWBE-D Digest V04 #41 > In a message dated 3/10/2004 8:20:09 AM Central Standard Time, > NISHNAWBE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > My reservation is based in Harbor > Springs, Mi. I am an Odawa Elder. Emery A. Iliff (PS. I now live in NE > Wa.state. > Emery, > Would you mind if I asked what was it about the NW that drew so many > different tribal members. > Joyce W > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

I'll be anxious to hear what Emery has to say! I just wanted to add that I live in Washington State also. N.W. I can tell you the Indians that live around here have many beautiful reservations, many around water or on water. Many with the view of Mountians covered with snow! The N.W. was the last Frontier! It is still wild in alot of places! Well, Alaska is the very LAST frontier...but its really cold! The N.W. is really nice most of the year. We have our share of rain but it makes all things beautiful and very green. Washington is known as the "Evergreen State!" I love to live in the trees near a lake. A 10 minute drive in any direction brings me to area beaches. The private beach I love is a 15 minute drive. I walked it today in the sunshine and I was the only one on the beach!!! Very peaceful! When we go out on the water we are greeted by everything from Bald Eagles to Orca Whales! It is a beautiful and wonderful world out there! In our woods we have deer, coyotes, rabbits, squirrells, racoons...etc. My mailbox faces a lake! My home faces a creek! At anyrate, Indians seem to love beauty and wildlife and a feeling of bigness with peace. To live close to nature and appreciate it. It brings alot of healing. Just my opinion. Spiritdove ~v~ on 3/10/04 10:26 AM, Goatcreekm@aol.com at Goatcreekm@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 3/10/2004 8:20:09 AM Central Standard Time, > NISHNAWBE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > My reservation is based in Harbor > Springs, Mi. I am an Odawa Elder. Emery A. Iliff (PS. I now live in NE > Wa.state. > Emery, > Would you mind if I asked what was it about the NW that drew so many > different tribal members. > Joyce W > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >