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CHIPPEWA CHIEF DEAD
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Squaw Gun, Known to All the Early Lumbermen

        Saginaw, Mich., Jan. 5, Squaw Gun, a Chippewa Indian, is dead at his home on Molasses River, aged over 100 years.

        Squaw Gun was known to every one of the first lumbering men of this city.  He was regarded as a man of wonderful strength, and as late as 10 years ago he was known to have walked 40 miles in one day.  With his death passes one of the few Indian chiefs in the county.  There is still one at Grayling and another and Indiantown, and both are now very old.  The Chippewa settlement on Molasses river is now very small, death having depopulated it very much during the past five years.

(Lake Superior Journal, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan - January, 1903)