Indian Dave, born around 1803 and given the name Ish-Don-Quit, was one of the last Chippewas to hunt, fish, and trap in the old manner in the Tuscola County area. According to legend, he attended the 1819 gathering at the Saginaw River where 114 Chippewa chiefs and braves signed the Treaty of Saginaw, ceding about 6,000,000 acres of land in central eastern Michigan to the United States. The earliest recorded inhabitants of Tuscola County were Sauk Indians, but Chippewas occupied the area by the time of the first permanent white settlement in 1836, though exactly when Indian Dave settled there is not known. He fascinated youngsters with his tales and native customs, and a mural portrait honoring him has hung in a Vassar bank for decades. In 1866, to resolve the Vassar-Caro county-seat dispute, he and Peter Bush transported the county records to Caro by canoe. An expert maker of bows and arrows, he often sold them for his livelihood. When he died in 1909, he was believed to be 106 years old and was buried nearby in Wisner Cemetery.