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== Introduction ==
The Flushing Area Historical Society presents the following comprehensive table documenting every known reference to Indigenous presence, activity, trails, battles, reservations, and burial mounds in and around the Flushing, Michigan region.
This compilation is drawn directly from historic county histories, local archival volumes, archaeological notes, early settler accounts, and treaty-era documents preserved in our collections.

Together, these records illustrate the deep Indigenous history of the Flint River corridor — including the Sauk, Chippewa (Ojibwe), Ottawa, Pottawatomie, and earlier Huron‑Iroquois peoples — whose trails, villages, battlegrounds, and burial mounds shaped the landscape that would later become the modern City of Flushing.

The table below consolidates all available source excerpts into a single reference catalog for researchers, genealogists, educators, and preservation advocates. Each entry is grounded strictly in the original documents and cites the exact file name and page numbers from which the material was taken.

== Master Table: Indians & Indian Mounds of the Flushing Area ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Summary of Content
! Source File
! Page(s)

|-
| Sauk–Ottawa battles along the Flint River: first near Flint, second at present Flushing golf course / Pierson Rd, third near Genesee–Saginaw line. Mounds with bones visible into 1850s–60s.
| Vol1.pdf
| 7

|-
| Major mound group one mile above Flushing on Jarvis Bailey farm (now Flushing Golf Course): ~20 mounds, 40 ft across, 6 ft high, opened c. 1875; many skeletons found indicating battle burials.
| Hart 1925 Notes.pdf
| 60

|-
| Large burial mounds just below Flint (20–40 ft across, 5 ft high), filled with bones; recognized by early settlers.
| Hart 1925 Notes.pdf
| 60

|-
| County-wide description of ancient Huron–Iroquois burial mounds predating Chippewa arrival.
| 1916 History of Genesee County vol. 1.pdf
| 122–124

|-
| Mounds along Saginaw & Flint Rivers described as communal burials; Chippewa later associated them with battles.
| 1916 History of Genesee County vol. 1.pdf
| 142–144

|-
| Sauk occupation & battles: Sauk villages, burial grounds, and battle sites along Flint and Shiawassee valleys; bones found later, including north of Flushing.
| 1879 History of Genesee County.pdf
| 191–192

|-
| Sauk–Chippewa war context: bones found years later at Flint River battlefields; region feared due to belief in spirits.
| 1879 History of Genesee County.pdf
| 192

|-
| Pewonigowink Reservation (5,760 acres) downstream of Flushing; included Kishkawbawee village and Indian Field used by travelers.
| 1879 History of Genesee County.pdf
| 31–32

|-
| Treaty of 1819 (Cass): Flint River reservation boundary 10 miles north of present Flushing; describes villages and land sections of Pewonigowink / Kishkawbawee.
| Hart - Flushing & Clayton Hist. Comp. 1925_Part2.pdf
| 9

|-
| Indian trail from Saginaw down Flint River through present-day Flushing via Coutant Street, then to Flint & Grand Blanc.
| Hart - Flushing & Clayton Hist. Comp. 1925_Part1.pdf
| 49

|-
| Flint River valley used as major tribal hunting, camping, and travel corridor; earliest inhabitants used region around future Flushing.
| 1894 Art Work of Genesee & Shiawassee Counties.pdf
| 65

|-
| Chippewa, Ottawa, and Pottawatomie hunting grounds included Flint River valley (future Flushing).
| 1894 Art Work of Genesee & Shiawassee Counties.pdf
| 2

|-
| Pewonigowink (Montrose) village as Indian center; records battle one mile above Flushing; renaming to Montrose by Scots settlers; last Saginaw Chippewa chief buried in Flint Township.
| Hart - Centennial Chronicles pt2.pdf
| 64–65

|-
| Flint River corridor as pathway for traders (Bolin, Jacob Smith) living among Indians; evidence of cultural mixing.
| 1894 Art Work of Genesee & Shiawassee Counties.pdf
| 65–66

|-
| Pewonigowink meaning “River of the Flint/Firestone”; region part of annual payment route for Saginaw Chippewas.
| Vol1.pdf
| 7

|-
| Indian burial site found near Mud Lake (Fenton Twp.); demonstrates broader Flint River watershed burial patterns.
| 1916 History of Genesee County vol. 1.pdf
| 204

|-
| Early settlers reported mound sites, Indian cornfields, and campsites around future Flushing.
| 1916 History of Genesee County vol. 1.pdf
| 198–201

|-
| Flushing burying ground area near Grand Trunk water tank produced unidentified bones during railroad construction; tradition of earlier Indian burials.
| Hart - TBD_Part2.pdf
| 35

|}

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