Consequently, though only two First Nation governments are
Successor Inherent, there are seven different First Nation
communities who lived, fished, hunted and traded in Saugeen
Ojibway Territory. The story of each of their communities from
past to present realities are best told by their own people.
Oral tradition carries those stories and their descendents are
still alive. The Chippewas of Saugeen Ojibway Territory are a
member of the Council of Three Fires of the Ojibway, Odawa and
Potawatomi Nations. The Confederacy came to help in the Battle
of Skull Mound and in the Battle of Blue Mountain. Though the
Council of Three Fires often fought against the Iroquois
Confederacy (or the Naadowe as they are called in the
Anishinaabe language), the Chippewas of Saugeen Ojibway
Territory peacefully shared the territory with the
Wyandotte/Wendat Nation who also made the area their home. The
Ojibway Nation called the Wendat peoples Nii'inaa-Naadowe ("The
'Nadowe' within our homeland"), but the French referred to them