While digging on Belle Isle in near Detroit, formerly knows as Hog Island, workers uncover a large statue that had been lost underground for many years. What is the statue of? Where did it come from?

Prior to it becoming the park we all know today, the island near the top end of the Detroit river had many names and purposes, and its history grew increasingly dicey the more the settlers disturbed the native tribes. According to Farmer’s history, the Indigenous tribes called the island Mahnahbezee, or “the swan.” It was lush with trees and lagoons.

Wild rice grew along many of the banks in the Detroit River, one could assume Belle Isle was no different. Indigenous people gathered it by knocking it into their canoes and wigwams with small corn fields, and gardens were seen in the clearings of many islands in the Detroit River.

To the French, its formal name was Isle St. Claire, but they also called it Ilse au Cochan or Hog Island because of its immense hog population. It was said pigs were kept there for two reasons, to keep them from being eaten by wolves, and to keep the rattlesnake population at bay.

The island remained under French control even though it was said to be granted to Monsieur Douville Dequindre in 1752. When the French ceded the Fort to the British, it was the site of a tragic murder of a family living on the island during Pontiac’s Rebellion in 1763 and where captives of the Rebellion were massacred.

In 1768 under George III, the island passed hands to Lieutenant George McDougall with the condition that the British could use it for military purposes. According to Silas Farmer’s history, the very next year, McDougall legally purchased the island from the Ottawa and Chippewa tribes for eight barrels of rum, three rolls of tobacco, three pounds of vermilion (a red pigment found in California and Nevada), a belt of wampum (beads made from shells), and three pounds of paint.

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