{"id":129275,"date":"2023-10-07T17:18:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T21:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/?p=129275"},"modified":"2023-10-07T17:18:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T21:18:12","slug":"what-native-americans-discovered-your-place-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/what-native-americans-discovered-your-place-first\/","title":{"rendered":"What Native Americans Discovered Your Place First"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

\"Native<\/a>Columbus Day marks the day when America was “discovered.” This is wrong. Columbus day ignores thousands of years of native American<\/strong>s living in the Americas in favor of a Euro-centric narrative. The website Native-Lands<\/a> attempts to document which native American people lived in your place before Columbus “discovered” them.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\"Fort<\/a>The European history of Detroit<\/strong> says the first recorded contact between Europeans and the Great Lakes Indians occurred<\/a> between 1534 and 1542, when Jacques Cartier of France explored the St. Lawrence River to discover gold or silver. In 1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac<\/a> founded Detroit. But this ignores the history of the Mound Builders<\/a><\/strong> who lived in the area before the Native American tribes.<\/p>\r\n

The Detroit area has populated by as many as seven different native peoples before Columbus arrived.<\/p>\r\n

The Peoria<\/a> people<\/strong> are the descendants of those who created the great mound civilizations in the central U.S. 2,000 thousand years ago. Their territory ranged from Jefferson City, MO to Madison, WI over to Detroit and Toledo.<\/p>\r\n

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The Anishinabewaki<\/strong><\/a> native Americans populated a territory that stretched from Regina, Saskatchewan to Ottawa, Toronto, Detroit and Minneapolis.<\/p>\r\n

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Bodw\u00e9wadmi (Potawatomi<\/strong><\/a>) people lived in the Chicago area and ranged to Detroit, up the Door coast of Wisconsin and down the Mississippi river to near St. Louis MO.<\/p>\r\n

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Myaamia (Miami<\/strong><\/a>) native American people lived in an area that runs from the Door peninsula in Wisconsin down the Mississippi river into Kentucky and along the Ohio river to West Virginia and up to Detroit, on east into Ontario.<\/p>\r\n

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The Wyandot<\/strong><\/a> people call the eastern half of Michigan from the Mackinaw area down to Detroit and over to Cleveland their home.<\/p>\r\n

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Me\u0161kwahki\u00b7a\u0161a\u00b7hina (Fox<\/strong><\/a>) native people called Southeastern Michigan home. They inhabited the area from Detroit to Battle Creek, into Indiana and over to Toledo.<\/p>\r\n

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Mississauga<\/strong><\/a> people call the area around Lake Erie home. They ranged from Detroit east to London, ON, Buffalo NY, and Lake Ontario from Toronto to near Ottawa. Their range extended all the way to north Saulte Ste. Marie, CA on Lake Superior.<\/p>\r\n

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This Columbus Day, why not take some time and explore the cultures of the indigenous people who lived where you live before Columbus “discovered” America.<\/em><\/p>\r\n

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