Makow slowed his pace and watched as the Odawas disappeared into a crowd of colorful and well-muscled warriors that had begun to gather outside the walls of the fort. They had painted their faces black and red, and covered their bodies with designs of totems and protectors. They were the Sauk from the River Ouisconsin beyond the Lake of the Illinois and the Baye of the Punts, Ojibwa from Minissing Mackinac, and now, Odawa.