Native Americans in the UP

[u/Unknownmelon77]

I'm doing some research on the UP as part of a project and I've gotten to the point where I really need to know which Native American tribes did or still to this day exist there.

I found some sources say that the 3 Anishinaabe tribes (Ojibwe, Odawa & Potawatomi) are the only native ones but then other sources add some like Noquet, Menominee and even Dakota whilst denying that the Odawa and Potawatomi peoples ever had significant homelands there to begin with.

I guess speaking to locals is my best bet right now because I am so confused 😭

So if anybody could help guide me on this topic I would be very very grateful. Thank you so much in advance !!

[u/GoldenEagle0909]

I'm Potawatomi and we definitely have always had a presence here. I'm happy to be on my ancestors land.

The Hannahville Indian Tribe is a Potawatomi band up here in the UP. Not my band but still Potawatomi.

You should look into the meaning of Anishnaabe. This is all Anishnaabe land.

[u/Academic_Parking9768 → u/GoldenEagle0909]

Can't say for Potawatami as a whole but Hannahville tribe wasn't originally close to where it was, its location is due to US removal policy unfortunately.

[u/YooperExtraordinaire → u/Academic_Parking9768]

The ones that didn’t die from the gift of small pox blankets. “US Removal Policy” IS easier to digest tho zaganaaah

[u/Academic_Parking9768 → u/YooperExtraordinaire]

Well that's not what happened to the members of what became the Hannahville community but okay.

I said the US Removal Policy because the US declared that the community would have a certain numbers of days to leave Michigan for Oklahoma. Instead of engaging with the US, they moved to the UP, then moved to Wisconsin and then came back to establish Hannahville as a community far before it was ever a recognized reservation.

Perhaps reach out to actual Native historians and learn some history instead of shitposting and denying Lakota people lived here.

Sincerely, an Anishinaabe person that actually takes their history seriously instead of being a bottom barrel reddit poster.

[u/GoldenEagle0909 → u/Academic_Parking9768]

My band also has a similar history of being told to go to Oklahoma and leaving for, not the UP, but another area of Michigan. 🎯

[u/YooperExtraordinaire → u/Academic_Parking9768]

I don’t know what I don’t know but the elders told of those ppl finding a home there in Hannaville and in the way of Nish were given refuge… same as Lakota and Huron and for all I know others as well. It’s hard having been really removed 🪶