Mapping the Grand Traverse Indian Country: The Contributions of Peter Dougherty By Helen Hornbeck Tanner

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Mapping the Grand Traverse Indian Country: The Contributions of Peter Dougherty

By Helen Hornbeck Tanner

The material in this booklet was originally organized as part of a series of lectures focused on the history of cartography in Michigan and the Great Lakes. Peter Dougherty’s accounts reveal the origins of the Grand Traverse Band, with Ojibwe villages on the East Bay and Ottawa villages on the Leelanau Peninsula, on the West Bay of Grand Traverse Bay. Reverend Dougherty arrived on what is now known as Old Mission Peninsula in 1839; his writings describe how the villages gathered and intermixed by the 1850s, just as the first settler communities were established. All the other recognized tribes in western Michigan are Ottawa/Odawa: Little Traverse, Little River in Manistee, and the as-yet-unrecognized Grand River group.

Published by Leelanau Press- 2009

51 Pages