When French explorers first visited Michigan in the early seventeenth century, there were
approximately 100,000 Native Americans living in the Great Lakes region. Of these, the estimated
population of what is now Michigan was approximately 15,000. Several tribes made the forests
and river valleys here their home. The main groups, sometimes referred to as “The Three Fires,”
were the Chippewa (Ojibway), who lived mainly in the Upper Peninsula and the eastern part of the
Lower Peninsula; th
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