banks of the river a little above cemetery point. They dug down at the spot, the rotten wood of the canoe crumbling away. Soon they found a knife, a gun barrel, and a silver shield upon which latter a number of Indian characters were engraved. They told of their find, and last Sunday Marshal McKenzie and a companion visited the spot and resumed the search. After digging through a layer of charcoal, the result probably of some ancient combustion, they came upon the bones of two skeletons, evidently of male and female adults. Removing the bones, they found a small copper kettle, a quiver shaft bound with two wide silver bands, upon which numerous characters and pictures were engraved, and a number of curious silver buckles. All were mildewed with age. Cloth in a very rotten state still adhered to the buckles and the cedar wood of the shaft was rotted away to where the silver bands encompassed it. Considering the charcoal deposit and other evidences, the relics must have been in the ground at least a century. The buckles were of a curious pattern, consisting of a round ring and a silver shaft passing through the cloth and overlapping the ring on each side. The relics are valuable mementoes and part of them may be seen in the window of Baker’s drug store. The boys have been offered various sums for them, but have not yet parted with these souvenirs of our Indian predecessors” 1898 In 1898, Frederick Norman submitted a legend called "An Aboriginal Spot" for the book "White Lake Reminiscences." The legend he submitted is quite similar to the currently used legend of Owasippe. However, the name Owasippe is never used in writing until after the Boy Scout Camp is named. Frederick Norman’s daughter, Bernice Norman, later added that a Native American named John Stone recited the legend to her father. Bernice Norman claimed that her father did a good deed for John Stone during the civil war and Stone recited the legend for Frederick Norman in return. “Along the banks of White Lake are many beautiful points that were once the abode of a prehistoric race whose existence is proved by the numerous relics they left behind, buried in the earth and which the plow or the shovel brings to the surface in the shape of arrow points, stone hatchets and bits of quaintly shaped pottery,