When the first French traders and missionaries arrived in the sixteen hundreds, the Ojibwe, or Chippewa, lived along the Bay and called themselves Anishinabeg, meaning "Original People." During colonization, the powerful Iroquois invaded the area to gain influence and dominate the fur trade. In 1662, local Ojibwe bands defeated an Iroquois war party here in a battle that ended that tribe's westward expansion. Henry Schoolcraft recorded that the Ojibwe called Point Iroquois "Nau-do-we-e-gun-ing," meaning "Place of the Iroquois Bones," and a fur trader from Sault Ste. Marie later reported that human bones and skulls were still visible on the beach here in the late seventeen hundreds.