Mackinac Island
Mackinac Island is an island and resort area, covering 4. 35 square miles in land area, in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located in Lake Huron, at the eastern end of the Straits of Mackinac, between the state’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas. The name of the village of MackInac is derived. from the Menominee word for turtle, Maehkaenah, which means ‘big turtle’ in Ojibwe.
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Mackinac Island is an island and resort area, covering 4. 35 square miles in land area, in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located in Lake Huron, at the eastern end of the Straits of Mackinac, between the state’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas. The island was long home to an Odawa settlement and previous indigenous cultures before European colonization began in the 17th century. It was a strategic center of the fur trade around the Great Lakes. The entire island is listed as a National Historic Landmark and is well known for numerous cultural events. More than 80 percent of the island is preserved as Mack inac Island State Park. The name of the village of MackInac is derived. from the Menominee word for turtle, Maehkaenah, which means ‘big turtle’ in Ojibwe. The Anishinaabe peoples likened the shape of the Island to that of a turtle so they named it ‘Mitchimakinak’ The island is a sacred place in the tradition of some of its earliest inhabitants, some of whom are known as ‘Anishinaabes’ The earliest European explorers arrived on the island in 1654 with a large party of Huron and Ottawa traders. They reportedly arrived with a party of three canoeists heading to Three Rivers and Three Rivers Rivers. The first European to visit the island was an adventurer making a canoe voyage in 1665. In the late 19th century, the island became a popular tourist attraction and summer colony.
It has a wide variety of architectural styles, including the Victorian Grand Hotel, and its ban on almost all motor vehicles. The French transliterated the work and spelled it as Michilimack inac, and the British shortened it to the present name: \”MackInac.’ The island’s name derives from a Native American language, in this case OjIBwe language. In his 1952 book The Indian Tribes of North America, John Reed Swanton recorded under the ‘Wisconsin’ section: ‘Misi’nimäk Kimiko Wini’niwuk, ‘Michilimacker’s People’. The earliest artifacts of Native American presence on the Island date back at least 700 years before European exploration, around AD 900. The oldest known fishing camps on the islands are found in the surrounding areas, including Fishhooks, Fishhook, and Fishhook Lake, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 1895, the doctor at Fort MackinAC, John Bailey, published a history entitled ‘Mi-shi-ne-macki naw-go,’ describing some of the earliest French traders on Mackininac. The Fort was built on a former trading post by the British during the American Revolutionary War and was the site of two battles during the War of 1812 before the northern border was settled and the US gained this island.
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