Wise and Warm

Today, is Indigenous Peoples Day. Our little town of Harbor Springs occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabek – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe (Chippewa), Odawa (Ottawa), and Bodéwadmi (Potawatomi) Nations.

In all of our conversations about how to use the land around us, we often forget to acknowledge the wise and warm people who have cared for the the area around this harbor for generations.

To learn more about the Indigenous Tribes of Michigan and their leadership, visit https://ieimi.org/ a collaboration between the Confederation of Michigan Tribal Education Departments and the Indigenous Education Initiative at the Michigan Department of Education.

(Photo of a birch bark canoe with quill work by Margaret Blackbird Boyd on loan from the Chicago Field Museum and on display at the Harbor Springs Historical Museum through the end of the month.)