Schoolcraft on Iroquois massacre in Michigan

Ojibwa spared two in order to carry the gruesome message home

    In Ojibwa Lodge Stories, Henry Schoolcraft tells the story of how Point Iroquois on Lake Superior got its name. Basically, it is the tale of how the Ojibway dealt with an Iroquois war party who had captured and taken a Chippewa or (maybe) Ottawa family. We are not told who the Iroquois were, but the inference is they were from the Iroquois Confedera…