October 15, 2020 - A team of nonscientists may have inadvertently confirmed the most important finding in Great Lakes archaeology in at least a decade. The group, made up mostly of Native American tribal citizens, utilized a remote-operated underwater vehicle in the Straits of Mackinac to take a look at Enbridge's ...

1 week ago - The Lake Superior shipwreck coast from Grand Marais, Michigan, to Whitefish Point became known as the "Graveyard of the Great Lakes". More vessels have been lost in the Whitefish Point area than any other part of Lake Superior. The Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve serves as an underwater ...

If you’re feeling brave enough to come face to face with the infamous underwater panther, visit the pictographs of Mishipeshu on Agawa Rock. ... The pictographs on Agawa Rock, just west of the Agawa River along the east bank of Lake Superior, were created between 150 to 400 years ago.

1 month ago - Mishipeshu calls Michipicoten Island ... North American tribes, particularly Anishinaabe, the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi, of the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States. In addition to the Anishinaabeg, Innu also have Mishibizhiw stories. To the Algonquins, the underwater panther was ...

January 25, 2022 - NAFWS President Menominee Tribe Natural Resources · Game Warden Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin

The first inhabitants of the Great Lakes basin arrived about 10,000 years ago. They had crossed the land bridge from Asia or perhaps had reached South America across the Pacific Ocean. Six thousand years ago, descendants of the first settlers were using copper from the southern shore of Lake ...

June 24, 2025 - Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians in what is now northern Michigan.) He is Director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education, Director of American Indian Studies, and Associate Professor Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

1 day ago - The southern shore of Lake Superior between Grand Marais, Michigan, and Whitefish Point is known as the "Graveyard of the Great Lakes"; more ships have been lost around the Whitefish Point area than any other part of Lake Superior. These shipwrecks are now protected by the Whitefish Point ...

The Great Lakes is a chain of inland lakes – Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, and Lake Superior – stretching from New York to Minnesota. Because they comprise such a large waterway, they have played a vital role in the lives and histories of Indian peoples who have resided ...

There are thirteen volunteer-managed Underwater Preserves around the state. One, Thunder Bay, is designated as a National Marine Sanctuary. All the preserves invite you to explore with your eyes and leave with your pictures and memories.

March 23, 2021 - The real underwater stone sensation lies 120 feet below neighboring Lake Huron: an area the size of a football field with dozens of 9,000-year-old artifacts and human-built stone structures that comprise the most complex prehistoric hunting structure ever found beneath the Great Lakes.

Native Peoples are the original inhabitants of North America, including the Great Lakes region. Native Peoples inhabited the continent tens of thousands of years before the arrival of explorers and settlers from other countries.

May 3, 2018 - Submerged prehistoric landscapes have unique traits which make them invaluable to archaeologists – increased preservation of organic remains, Pompeii-like snap shots in time, and data that either do not exist on land or are deeply buried. These attributes make the few challenges that remain ...

February 12, 2019 - Play our underwater archaeology ... digital underwater archaeologists use in the game is a gradiometer. Do you think the archaeologists studying Lake Huron used a gradiometer? Why or why not? No, archaeologists probably did not use a gradiometer. A gradiometer measures evidence of metal. The Lake Huron site is a Stone Age site. The tools used by ancient Native Americans at the site ...

January 11, 2024 - In the American Upper Midwest, mysterious ancient caribou hunters left clues to who they were deep beneath Lake Huron.

Regionally, Great Lakes Indians are part of what is called the Woodland Culture Area.

Tribes of the Great Lakes region of North America. This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total. ... The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.

August 8, 2025 - Despite difficult diving conditions, limited funding, and a tragic death, archaeologists are working against all odds to reveal what may be submerged beneath Madison’s Lake Mendota.

June 26, 2024 - Experience the North American Great Lakes and learn about the First Nations