If you have been reading this blog, you know I have ancestors who were living in Sault Ste. Marie in the 1700s.
Kenogenini Mentosaky look alike…
This is an interesting Website where we can learn more about my lost roots.
Excerpt (in fact the whole page!)
The Origins of Sault Tribe
Sault Tribe’s ancestors were Anishinaabeg fishing tribes whose settlements dotted the upper Great Lakes around Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, throughout the St. Marys River system and the Straits of Mackinac. Anishinaabeg gathered for the summers in places like Bahweting (Sault Ste. Marie) and broke up into family units for the winter.
They hunted, fished and gathered and preserved food for the winter. They were respectful to their elders and treasured their children. They conducted ceremonies for good health, thanksgiving, war, funerals and other things and strove to conduct their lives in a good way.
Anishinaabeg lived this way for hundreds of years until the arrival of European settlers in the 1600s. The Anishinaabeg had dealings with first the French, then the English, then the United States. The Anishinaabeg lifeway began to deteriorate as the people were placed on reservations, sent to boarding schools, along with other attempts to matriculate them into American mainstream society.
Footnote
1861 Canadian census
Wife of Antoine Trudeau…
Marie Dufault, 89, born in Sault Ste-Marie.