Sault Sainte Marie Reservation Chippewa Chief

"He Told Longfellow Legends of "Hiawatha" Indians say". "The poem was largely based on the folklore of the Chippewa, the tribe to which this aged chief belongs. Photographed near Payment, Sugar Island, Michigan, in 1923 he holds in his hand the rattle of a medicine man. The turkey feather headdress is copied after the eagle feather war bonnets of the tribe's traditional enemies, the Sioux. Formerly these were worn only by Plains Indians. Nowadays many eastern tribes, probably influenced by Wild West movies, have adopted these bonnets that their ancestors never knew.