La Pointe Indian Cemetery was established about 1836 as part of a Roman Catholic mission under the guidance of the Austrian priest Frederick Baraga, who was later made a bishop. Christianized Ojibway (Chippewa) adopted the white man's style of house as a grave cover, following a custom of protecting both the dead and the food left with the dead. That food was believed to provide sustenance for the 4-day journey to the Hereafter and something for the spirit to leave for friends, relatives, and the poor. A defaced stone marks the grave of Great Buffalo, principal chief of the Ojibway on Lake Superior, while his Protestant son, Chief Little Buffalo, is buried across the road and south in a grave marked with 4 pines. A Frenchman, Cadeau, traveled to Lake Superior in 1671 and eventually married an Ojibway. His grandson, Michel Cadotte, opened a fur-trading post on this island in 1793 for the North West Company, and after the post was acquired by John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company, Michel continued as manager until 1823. Michel Cadotte is buried here beside his grandchild, Julia Mary Warren of the noted family of fur traders and scholars.