Wawatam Township, Michigan
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Wawatam Township is a civil township of Emmet County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 711.
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Wawatam was an 18th-century Odawa chief who lived in the northern region of present-day Michigan's Lower Peninsula in an area along the Lake Michigan shoreline known by the Odawa as Waganawkezee.
Wawatam Township, Michigan
…The village of Mackinaw City is located mostly within the township. The township is named after Wawatam, an Odawa chief noted for rescuing British trader Alexander Henry the elder from the Ojibwas' capture of Fort Michilimackinac in 1763. Mackinaw City…
Ojibwa Chief Wawatam statue in Mackinaw City.