Hwy. 55, 2.5 mi. N of Keshena, Menominee County 

One night long ago a Menominee Indian dreamed that Manabush, grandson of Ko-Ko-Mas-Say-Sa-Now (the Earth) and part founder of the Mitawin or Medicine Society, invited him to visit the god. With seven of his friends the Indian called on Manabush who granted their request to make them success­ful hunters. One of the band, however, angered the god by asking for eternal life. Manabush, seizing the warrior by the shoulders, thrust him into the ground and said, "You shall be stone, thus you will be everlasting." The Menominee say that at night kindly spirits came to lay offerings of tobacco at the rock and that if one looks closely he can see their white veils among the trees. The legend is that when the rock finally crumbles away the race will be extinct.

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[Source: McBride, Sarah Davis. History Just Ahead (Madison:WHS, 1999).]