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Noon Day

Noon Day was a chief of the Chippewa tribe, which migrated from the East late in the 16th or early 17th century. This tribe settled first about the Falls of St. Mary, and eventually compelled the Dakotas to relinquish their ancient hunting grounds about the head-waters of the Red River of the North. The Chippewa warriors were of magnificent physique, and a brave and determined people. They were expert in the use of the canoe, and lived in wigwams of birch bark or grass mats. They regarded their dreams during sleep as divine revelations. In 1905, the Chippewas numbered about 65,000 in British America, 14,444 in the United States, exclusive of about 3,000 in Michigan.