The Chief Pontiac statue in Pontiac City Hall's lobby is one of several originally made for GM dealerships. Peg McNichol/MediaNews Group To make matters worse, the British settlements were far ...

PONTIAC -- The namesake of the city of Pontiac was clubbed and beaten to death in a revenge killing along the banks of the Mississippi River in Illinois in the mid-18th century. Chief Pontiac's ...

There's even one that the majority of folks are highly unlikely to ever see in person: the 1957 Pontiac Star Chief Custom Bonneville. Odds are, if you go to a classic car show, you'll run into a ...

Pontiac vehicles were first built in Pontiac, Michigan, both of them named after a chief of the Ottawa Native American tribe. So the history and meaning behind the Chief Pontiac logo and hood ...

Another unique Pontiac feature from the 1950s is the likeness of Chief Pontiac -- best remembered as the leader of the Ottawa Tribe's attack and siege of Fort Detroit in 1763 -- as a hood ornament ...

ASHEVILLE, NC — Chief Pontiac, the giant fiberglass statue of a Native American that for decades stood in a car lot atop a hill overlooking Patton Avenue, has left his post. The owners of Harry ...

About 30 miles northwest of Downtown Detroit is Pontiac. Originally settled by Europeans in 1818, the area was named after Chief Pontiac of the Ottawa tribe. It was designated the county seat for ...