Indian names of places near the Great Lakes

Naming of Detroit is on Page 23
Indian names of places near the Great Lakes
By: Kelton, Dwight H., 1843-1906
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Indian Names of the Great Lakes

Native American Voting Rights

INDIAN – RIGHT TO VOTE
B73
GII
F20
 
Complaints – Houghton County.  ALsS regarding refusal to Indians at L’Anse of right to elect civil officials.  Involves Peter Crebassa family. 

Chief Okemos

Research – Chief Okemos
 
Source:  Pioneer History of Ingham County, Adams, Lansing, 1923, 846 pages.  See pp. 193-204.
Michigan Pioneer Collection                   III, 110, 49-52, 383
IV, 32
XII, 4, 343
XLV, 624, 625
XVIII, 10, 433
XXVI, 522, 523
XXVII, 399
XXXII, 264
XXXV, 405-406
Michigan History Magazine                   Vol. 6:  156-159, 45-46
Vol. 12:  601-603
Vol. 13:  584-586
Vol. 26:  505
Vol. 45:  23

Medicine Dance Ottawa Indians

INDIAN – MEDICINE DANCE – Me ta wuk (Ottawa)
Source:
1.     McCoy, Isaac.  History of the Baptist Missions..1840..Washington.  P206-12.

No Nothing Party

KNOW-NOTHING PARTY (NATIVE AMERICANISM)
 
Source:
 
1.   Lardner, John.  “That was New York, the Martyrdom of Bill the Butcher.”  Story of Bill Poole and others such as James W. Barker, who ran for Mayor of New York in 1854, and Millard Fillmore, who ran for President in 1856.  Was a major political factor in political history of [...]

Kinnickinnick Kinnick knick wild tobacco-type plant

KINNI KNICK
 
Source:
 
1.  Schoolcraft.  – Narrative Journal of Travel..to Miss.  R., 18201 P161

Indians – Potawatomi and Ottawa in Oceana County

RESEARCH – INDIANS – POTAWATOMI AND OTTAWA IN OCEANA COUNTY
Sources:
1.    Archeaological Atlas of Michigan-Hinsdale, N.  1931.
2.    Michigan Pioneer Collections Vol. 3 P368
3.    Lowell-100 years of History-Southwick
General:
1.    History of Manistee, Mason, and Oceana County Page and Co., 1881
2.    Oceana County Topography, Biography, History, Art Folio & Directory of Freeholders.  Imperial Publishing Co., Saginaw. n.d.
3.    Standard Atlas [...]

Cheyboygan County Indians / Native Americans

Source:
Totem Pole March 5, 1956
2.     Messages of the Governors of Michigan Vol. 4, P271.
3.     Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties.  Vol. II.  (Treaties) Comp and ed by Charles J. Kappler.  Washington:  U.S. Government printing office, 1904.  P.734 Treaty with the Chippewa of Saginaw, etc. 1855.  “Art. 3.  The Said Chippewas of Saginaw, and of [...]

Native American Treaties

Link: Charles J. Kappler, Indian Treaties, 1778-1883

Indian / Native American Trails

Source:
1.     See Michigan Encyclopedia (boxed at Archives) Hinsdale, W. B. Indians’ Modes and Paths of Travel in Michigan.  Chart of trails.