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who have taken their abode there."[26]<br />

St. Ignace Mission. - When Father<br />

Marquette arrived in the region in the early<br />

summer of 1671 he removed the mission to the<br />

mainl<strong>and</strong> where there was better soil for<br />

agriculture. In 1672 a palisaded Huron<br />

village was established on the shores of East<br />

Moran Bay. Father Marquette oversaw the<br />

construction of a palisaded mission complex<br />

consisting of a chapel <strong>and</strong> residence near the<br />

Indian village.<br />

Indians at St. Ignace. - At the time<br />

Marquette noted that there were over 380<br />

Tionontati who were joined by an additional<br />

sixty Odawa.[27] The partially Christianized<br />

Kiskakons settled near Sault Ste. Marie<br />

before they migrated in 1676 to St. Ignace<br />

mission near the Hurons at Mackinac. By 1695<br />

parts of the Sinagos, Sables, <strong>and</strong><br />

Nassauakuetons had settled there as well.[28]

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