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 Line 5 oil and natural gas pipelines on the lake bottom.

September 4, 2025 - Mishipeshu calls Michipicoten Island in Lake Superior his home and is a powerful creature in the mythological traditions of some Indigenous North American tribes, particularly Anishinaabe, the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi, of the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States.

October 14, 2020 - DETROIT — 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 Line 5 oil and natural gas pipelines on the lake bottom.

February 12, 2019 - Map by NOAA GLERL ... The USA Today article reports that 9,000 years ago, water levels in Lake Huron were about 76 meters (250 feet) lower than they are today. The shallower lake exposed a hilly ridge where ancient Native Americans hunted caribou.

Whether Mishipeshu truly dwells in deep dark depths of the largest Great Lake is up for debate. What’s not up for debate is Mishipeshu’s important place in First Nations culture. Historically, Mishipeshu has been a point of Anishnaabe cultural pride. Underwater panther imagery appears in artifact collections on things like quilled shoulder satchels and twined bags.

The Michigan Iron Industry Museum is a great place to learn about the history of Michigan's iron industry. ... Sanilac Petroglyphs Historic State Park protects and interprets Michigan’s largest known collection of early Native American teachings carved in stone.

June 24, 2025 - Building relationships takes time, and community engagement is often not cited as an academic research “product”. Furthermore, within the context of the United States, the ethics of research for cultural knowledge in inundated landscapes will likely involve the same Tribal Historic Preservation Officers who are currently inundated from the significant Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) requirements that are also their responsibility. In acknowledgment of these challenges, here we address ethical considerations for submerged site research. As two tenured Anthropologists at a United States university on the Great Lakes, we outline topics relevant to the region, and by incorporating settler colonialism as a methodology of understanding, we seek to infuse this viewpoint into inundated landscape studies—using the Great Lakes as a case study.

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

August 13, 2024 - While no carbon dating or other analytical studies have been done on the site, it is mostly accepted that the site had a high significance and was used as an important, ceremonial site for Native Americans who once inhabited Beaver Island.” 6 ...

June 26, 2024 - These five vast expanses of interlinked fresh water, on the border between Canada and the United States, were the precious cradles of many Native American tribes for several thousand years. The lakes were natural gifts for these initial populations, these First Nations who settled and grew up on their shores. Whatever their traditions, these Indigenous peoples shared a deep and ancient bond with the Great Lakes, nourished by spirituality and faith.

Scholars have hypothesized that the poorly understood and rarely encountered archaeological sites from the terminal Paleoindian and Archaic periods associated with the Lake Stanley low water stage (10,000–7,500 BP) are lost beneath the modern Great Lakes.

August 7, 2025 - Along with the other AAR hunting sites the team has identified, these structures are unique in the Great Lakes region—though similar hunting sites exist in the Arctic. “Nobody had any idea that people were using that hunting architecture in the Great Lakes,” says Lemke. “It’s only because it’s underwater that those hunting structures are preserved.

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 ...

February 21, 2025 - Today, the exact locations of these underwater sites remain secret, both to protect them from looters and to honor the wishes of Indigenous tribes who consider them sacred. As scientists continue their research, the discoveries beneath the Great Lakes challenge what is known about early North American civilizations, revealing a world that existed long before the lakes themselves.

1 day ago - A few small cruise ships operate on the Great Lakes including some sailing ships. Sport fishing, commercial fishing, and Native American fishing represent a U.S.$4 billion a year industry with salmon, whitefish, smelt, lake trout, bass and walleye being major catches.

The French explorers first visited Lake Huron in 1615, They found Native Peoples who had mastered their environment and were economically self-sustaining. The tribes living around the Great Lakes had established a network of overland trails ...

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 ...

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December 23, 2024 - The Bad Axe post office sits on the site of a circular mound or earthwork in a swamp, “a spot of dry land twenty or thirty feet above the level of the swamp, with a wall of the earth extending around it.” One theory is that it was a Native ...