Ottissippi The Truth About Great Lakes Indian History And The Gateway To The West [Paperback]

This is the sweeping history of the Great Lakes Indians, the Northwest Territory, Michigan, Ontario, Canada, Ohio and more. The Great Lakes, Superior, Huron - Karegnondi, Erie, Michigan, and Ontario. Southeast Michigan was the great trade route to the west, the Ottissippi - the Detroit strait, the St. Clair and Detroit River was the waterway to the heart of the country. Aamjiwnaang territory, from Detroit, to Toronto, Georgian Bay, to Alpena, then west to the Saginaw watershed west of Lansing. Many tribes were connected to this area, The Three Fires, Ojibwe-Chippewa, Ottawa, Pottawatomi, Huron, Missisauga, Neutrals, Iroquois, Wyandotte, Erie, Saulk, Sauk, Fox, Delaware, Miami, Shawnee, Delaware, Menominee, Saulteurs, Saulteaux, and many more. This is in depth research and history of the Indigenous Aboriginal people, culture and lifeways of the Michigan, Anishinabe -First People. The extraordinary hidden truth we never learned, due to the history being scattered, the complexity, time, and change of names, places, waterways and governments. The Origins, migration, religion, prophecies, Mide, Metis, hunting, sturgeon, white fish, medicine, war, disease, counting coup, dog feast, clans, chiefs, totems, firesticks, Teaching stick, slavery, Death Song, canoes, buffalo, vision quest, four directions, Pow Wow, Sun dance, sweat lodge, fire water, racism, Chiefs biographies . Voyageurs, explorers, missionaries, Coureur Debois, the French, British, Americans, Spanish, Dutch, military, pirates, wizards, trading posts, frontier, pioneers and Immigration. The many waterways, St. Clair River, Belle River, Black River, Thames, Chenail Escarte, Flint River, Huron River, Lake St. Clair, St. Clair Flats, and Islands. Sault Ste. Marie, Michilimackinac, Gnadenhutten, Cahokia, Vincennes, Kaskaskia, Virginia, Indiana Territory, Teuscha Grondie, Place of Many Beavers, White Rock, St. Marys. Forts, Detret, Ponchetrain, St. Joseph, Sinclair, Gratiot, Malden, Maiden, and Edward. Reservations;l3a