 The tribe holds the annual Peshawbestown Pow-Wow, which takes place each August with native foods, tribal art, and dancing.The community developed from a Franciscan Catholic mission, beginning about 1850, to the Chippewa and Ottawa peoples of the area and appears to have been named for a chief of the indigenous people.In 1911 the village was described as "two long rows of log cabins, built in 1849," in a February 12, 1911, "Detroit Free Press" article quoted by Powers.