Early History of Lake Maxinkuckee -Chief Pau-koo-shuck  

The sons name was Pau-koo-shuck, suceeded hhis father as chief of the tribe, and the same year disposed of the lands belonging to the reservation by treaty to the gevernment, wand with his band in September, 1838, satarted for the reservation west of the Missouri river.

According to the account of one who accompanied the Indians on that expedition, Pau-koo-shuck, when near the Missouri river, refused to any further and escaped and returned to the old hunting grounds.

He spent the remainder of his days, which were few, hunting and fishing along the rivers and lakes in the neighborhood where he had formerly lived. Jis life, however had proven a failure; his kindred and frieinds had been dragged from him, and he grew restless and discontented, drank whiskey to excess and went from place to pplace, getting into frequent quarrels and fights.

In one of these distrubances which occured at or near Winamac, he was so badly hurt that disease set in and he died.

The writer of this was informed by one who said he was one of the pallbearers, that the body of Pau-koo-shuck was carried from Winamace and buried on Long Point on the west bank of Maxinkuckee Lake. Whether this story is true or not it not of much consequence. Human bones wer found many years ago, and many of the early settlers had implicit confidence that Pau-koo-shuck was buried thereas stated>

Many who were about the lake in the early days believed that his ghost came forth on almost every favorable night and skipped about on the water, and floated around among the trees and bushes that grew on Long Point where he had been buried, like a thing of life, "cutting such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep". Sometimes he would be seen in his little canoe, apparently paddling with all his might for the south east shore where his father, Au-be-nau-be had formerly owned a reservatio, and while the spectator was gazing the ghost would instantly disappear in the rippling waves and would be lost to sight. Turning to the shore again he would be observed floating about as if in search of something, and then all at once would disappear and would not be seen again for several nights.

With the coming of civilization his ghostship has permanently disappeared, and the places that knew him so well in the primitive days will know him no more forever.