Michigan Indian Tribes At a very early period, Chippewa lived
about the Sault St. Marie and on the northern shore of Lake
Michigan. (See Since the Sauk are known to have lived in
Michigan at an early period, it is probable that the Foxes did
also, but this is still uncertain. (See The same probability of
an early residence in Michigan applies to the Kickapoo as to the
Foxes and for a similar This tribe ceded its claim to a portion
of the upper peninsula of Michigan in 1836. (See The Miami, or a
portion of them, at one time occupied the valley of St. Joseph
River and other parts of the southern Michigan border. (See
Bands of the Neutral Nation extended, in the seventeenth
century, into what is now southeastern Michigan. Meaning
probably "bear foot," another name for the Bear gens in
Chippewa. The Bear gens may have been prominent in this tribe.
Connections. The Noquet are thought to have been related to the
Menominee of the Algonquian Location. About Big Bay de Noquet
and Little Bay de Noquet and extending acr