Na-Ya-to-Shingh, known as Old Chief Mishicott, was a Potawatomi leader for whom Daniel Smith named a small village in 1847 near his dam and sawmill on the river here, and his name was also given to the Town of Mishicot, organized in 1852, and to the Mishicot River, now called the East Twin River, in Manitowoc County. Mishicott’s Potawatomi name meant Hairy Leg, for the fluffy white feathers on the upper leg of a horned owl. He raised his grandson, also named Na-ya-to-shingh and known as Young Chief Mishicott, who lived from 1821 to 1916. After European American land encroachment and the loss of traditional hunting grounds in the territorial land cessions of 1831 and 1833, the Potawatomi were removed to areas as far away as Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Canada. In 1842, both Mishicotts returned to Wisconsin from Canada by way of Potawatomi Island, now Washington Island. In 1846, Andrew Vieau, son of French fur trader Jacques Vieau and Angelique Roy, a Menominee woman, bought 80 acres from the US government as a permanent home for the band at the Potawatomi village and planting grounds of Mah-Kah-da-wah-gah-cok, or Black Earth, eight miles north of Smith’s mill. The Potawatomi lived there until 1862, when unpaid property taxes led the Kewaunee County sheriff to force them from the property. They relocated to the Cedar River area in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where they suffered severe hardships. A smallpox epidemic killed 121 families, and only an estimated thirteen families survived, including Young Mishicott’s. The band then moved to nearby Harris Township, where their new settlement was named Hannahville for the wife of Methodist minister Peter Marksman, a trusted friend and spokesman. Young Mishicott was baptized there, received the biblical name Abraham, and was buried in the Hannahville Cemetery. Many of his descendants continue to live in the Hannahville Indian community today.