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Show Old Indian Mission in Michigan Built From Timber Dragged to Site by Oxen the windows, doors, and trim, which were brought from Traverse city by dugout canoes, and transported trans-ported up the steep hills on the backs of the Indians. No bell was available, so a huge conch shell was blown to call the Indians to worship. Between the church and Susan lake is an old Indian burying ground, where the graves face the east, as has always been the custom. Greensky Hill Indian mission, one of northern Michigan's most important impor-tant historic spots, will be preserved as a perpetual exhibit if plans by the Charlevoix board of commerce and the county board of supervisors are successful, states a correspondent correspond-ent in the Detroit Free Press. Originally, Greensky hill was a council place of the Indians, who planted a council ring of trees to mark the site of their powwows. To prevent the trees from being cut for timber by the encroaching white men the Indians bent them to the ground and tied them with bass-wood bass-wood thongs, rendering them unfit for lumber. The symbolic purpose of the planting of the trees was to remonstrate the pledge that, as long as the trees grew and bore leaves, the tribes would remain at peace with one another. In 1839. it- response to a request by Indians who had embraced Chris-danity Chris-danity Peter Greensky was sent here by the Methodist church. The first church building was a wag-noe wag-noe any" constructed of saplings and covered with elm bark wiUt only a dirt floor. In 1861 this became be-came too small for the increasmg congregation, and a log church as bU4le Indians felled the trees and scared the logs. The huge Umber , dragged into place by Peter GrTensky's oxen. The only pieces ed in construction which were I ough" from another place were |