pe-wa-na-go-ing

Updated: May 6, 2025

At last he vanquished him on the east shore of Grand Traverse Bay, Michigan, near the place now called Antrim City, but formerly by the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, it was called "Pe-wa-na-go-ing," meaning "Flinty Point," so called because there were great rocks of flint lying near the edge of the lake shore.

Andrew J. Blackbird - History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan : A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author