Scope and Contents The collection contains a copy of the Genealogy of the Saganing Indians of Arenac County and the Saginaw Valley in Michigan (1760-circa 1880), written by Bernard Bourase and his wife Charlotte, both Native Americans, for a settler, Harvey Chamberlin. It contains some interesting comments on the treaty of 1819, which deprived Native Americans of their land in and around the Saginaw Valley.Included also is an index of Ojibwa words and their English...

Scope and Content Note This collection contains business records and correspondence from 1898-1931 of four Saginaw Bay (Michigan) area fish companies: Saginaw Bay Fish Company, W.J. Orr Fish Company, Bay Port Fish Company, and the Ballard Fish Company. These records include invoices, labor accounts, bank statements, daily transactions, tax records, annual reports, founding agreements, price lists, and cancelled checks. Also included is an 1857 survey map of the southeast shore of Saginaw Bay, the tax...