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 | | The Michigan electorate organized a government without U.S. sanction and in 1836 operated as a state, although outside the Union |
 | | The Ojibwa, the Ottawa, the Potawatomi, Native American groups were living in Michigan when the French explorer ?tienne Brul? |
 | | Later French explorers, traders, and missionaries came, including Jean Nicolet, who was searching for the Northwest Passage; Jacques Marquette, who founded a mission in the Mackinac region; and the empire builder, Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, who came on the Griffon, the first ship to sail the Great Lakes. |
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