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Legend is...

 

On the shore of the Great Lake rests a huge boulder, a Sacred stone. Legend has it that two rival Indian Chiefs had many arguments often ending in blood shed. One of the Chiefs was aggressive, constantly  trespassing on the others Tribal hunting grounds, causing constant bickering.  Again the rival Chiefs met at the boundary line, there was no rock there at that time,  but as usual another loud argument followed. Unbeknown to the bickering Indian Chiefs, the God, Great Manitou, who lived on the shores of Gitchee Gumee, Lake Superior, was finally so fed up with the continual racket by the rival Chiefs, he picked up an enormous rock and hurled it down upon them. The stone fell with such a great force that it made the nearby high banks quiver for many years after. The banks were thought to be in continuous motion by the Indians. Geologists confirm sacredrock is of the same formation as rock found around Lake Superior.  It was said each year the Indians came to this rock to bring sacrifices to appease the Great Manitou.  The Medicine Man would lead the Tribe to Sacredrock where he would then choose the best dog of one of the braves. The dog was then sacrificed in the honor of the Great Manitou. The brave whose dog was sacrificed would lead the tribe home. This Ceremony was said to have been seen by a lone white man who was traveling north on the shoreline. He became frighten with what he saw taking place at the rock before him. Fearing for his life, he hid.  He later told of his experience to an elder Indian, the Indian was very surprised recalling that "no white man had see that ceremony ever before".  Up to the 1870's the Indians continued to offer sacrifices of dogs upon the sacred rock, some say blood still seeps from the rock when it has rained for many days and nights. For many years after, Indians continued to leave tobacco, pipes, beads and other tokens as a sacrifice.

 

 

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