Michilimackinac
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Michilimackinac is derived from an Ottawa-Ojibwe name for present-day Mackinac Island and the region around the Straits of Mackinac between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. Early settlers of North Americ
Overhead view of the Straits of Mackinac linking Lakes Michigan (left) and Huron (right)
Wyandot people
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The Wyandot people are an Indigenous people who emerged in the Great Lakes region in the mid-17th century. The Wyandot developed through a process of ethnogenesis during the Beaver Wars, when refugees
Michilimackinac
…birthplace and centre of the world" and is where the Three Fires Confederacy took place. The Anishinaabe had good relations with the Iroquoian-speaking Wyandot, who were the first group to establish relations with New France after Samuel de Champlain's arrival in 1608. The Anishinaabe used these relations to…
Wyandot moccasins, c. 1880, in the collection of the Bata Shoe Museum
William Walker (1800–1874), a leader of the Wyandot people and a prominent citizen of early-day Kansas.