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  Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Keweenaw, Whitefish, and the Big and Little Bays De Noc are the principal indentations on the Upper Peninsula, while the Grand and Little Traverse, Thunder, and Saginaw bays indent the Lower Peninsula.
The principal ones include the Au Sable, Thunder Bay, Cheboygan, and Saginaw, all of which flow into Lake Huron; the Ontonagon River, and Tahquamenon, which flow into Lake Superior; and the St.
Metro Detroit has many residents of Polish and Irish descent, and is home to the largest Arab community in the United States.
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 Native Americans: Chippewa Indian Tribe (Ojibway First Nations, Ojibwa, Anishinabe)
Language:: The Ojibwe language--otherwise anglicized as Chippewa, Ojibwa or Ojibway and known to its own speakers as Anishinabe or Anishinaabemowin--is an Algonquian tongue spoken by 50,000 people in the northern United States and southern Canada.
The Ottawa have always been politically independent from the Ojibwe, but their language is essentially the same--speakers of all five dialects, including Ottawa, can understand each other readily.
Ojibwe and Chippewa are renderings of the same Algonquian word, "puckering," probably referring to their characteristic moccasin style.
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 Finnish ancestry by city - ePodunk
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Immigration from Finland to the U.S. peaked between 1899 and World War I. Earlier immigrants often traveled through other European countries en route, embarking on ocean liners from Liverpool or Bremerhaven.
The map and the following list show communities in which 1,000 or more people listed an ancestry group, and in which at least 5 percent of those people said they were Finnish.
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 Timeline 1780-1789
1780 Dec 4, At the Battle of Rugeley's Mill, South Carolina, Colonel William Washington attacked a fortified log barn with 107 Loyalists inside.
1780 In France a communal grave at the Cemetery of the Innocents in Paris cracked and spilled into the cellars of adjoining houses and prompted its closure.
By year’s end some 50,000 British convict servants were transported to the American colonies in commutation of death sentences.
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 "the People's Paths home page!" Librarys, Books, Stories & Images
JINGLE DANCER is the story of Jenna, a contemporary Muscogee (Creek)-Ojibwe (Chippewa) girl who in bringing together her regalia draws strength from the women of her family and her intertribal Native American Indian community in small town Oklahoma.
Blackbird, Andrew J. "History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan; a grammar of their language, and personal and family history of the author, by Andrew J. Blackbird.
The Keetoowah, the U.S. Government, and Arkansas "The First Annual Native American Symposium, held at the University of Arkansas, February 3-4, 1995, was sponsored by the University of Arkansas Native American Student Association, Alpha Chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, and the Religious Studies Program.
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 Native American Criminal Justice Resources
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Fort Peck: Community Profile
Children's Justice Act Partnerships for Indian Communities: Addendum - Synopsis of the CJA Programs
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