Our People, Our Journey by James McClurken

Pay-quo-tusk's son, Joseph was born about 1839. Quis mo qua's son, Peter, was born about 1838. William Ferry and his Indian friends successfully defused the situation.' As a result, the Potawatomi Chief Shiawassee, then living upriver at the confluence of Crockery Creek and the Grand River, called a council at Battle Point, where he attempted to induce the Odawa living there and other local groups to revolt and massacre European settlers.

'In 1836, the Treaty of Washington ceded the lands north of the Grand River to the United States. The Odawa at the site were led by Chief Onamontapy.' 'Battle Point was the site of Fort Village and an Odawa Indian burial ground, likely used for a span of about 20 years between 18. No sources have been found yet naming Pay quo tusk's parents. Other sources say her parents are Sekinagos and Menash. The parents listed on Quis mo qua's death are Sig-na-kwo and Ah-mow-qua. He was the brother of Quis mo qua (Quay quay saw mo quay).

However, the very treaty intended to provide the Grand River Ottawas with a permanent reservation 'homeland' eventually allowed non-Indians to acquire title to nearly two-thirds of the land within the reservation by 1880.Pay quo tusk (also known as Payquotuch Sam, Sam Payquotuch, and Kaygegaybe, was said to be born in 1812 probably in Fort Village. McClurken explains how the Little River Band was forced, in 1858, onto a reservation on the Pere Marquette and Manistee Rivers where they settled with a number of other Ottawa bands. Although the Little River Ottawas were successful at integrating their economic and cultural practices with those of Europeans, they were forced to cede land in the face of American settlements. He describes the Band's struggles to find land to call its own over several centuries, including the hardships that began with European exploration of what is now the upper Midwest. In his thoroughly researched chronicle, McClurken documents in words and images every major lineage and family of the Little River Ottawas.

'Our People, Our Journey 'is a landmark history of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, a Michigan tribe that has survived to the present day despite the expansionist and assimilationist policies that nearly robbed it of an identity in the late nineteenth century.

Our People, Our Journey by James McClurken