The Sashabaw Project

The plaque on Dixie Highway tells that Sashabaw was a Chief who befriended the white settlers in the area.

I’ve been on a mission to find evidence to confirm this piece of history, but everywhere I turn I come up empty.

Ah, but wait! Here’s a treatise from Michigan History Magazine from 1940 titled “Chieftainship among Michigan Indians.” Very scholarly. In it, we learn that Sashabaw was a “valued friend to the Pioneers.”

Eureka! But wait again … The evidence for this claim? The bronze plaque on Dixie Highway. Oh.

Interestingly, the author goes on to describe in some detail another chieftain. You guessed it. Sassaba.

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