by Burt Lake Band | Aug 30, 2024 | Culture, News, Uncategorized
We walk to honor our ancestors and memorialize the day in 1900 when the village on Chickigami Trail was burned to the ground and taken. This unlawful act affected those living in the village that day and changed the course of the future for every descendent since...
by Burt Lake Band | Jun 3, 2024 | Burt Lake Burn-Out, History, News
This article was originally posted at Norther Express, https://www.northernexpress.com/news/feature/missing-history-burt-lake-burnout/ On a gloomy morning in 1900, members of the Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians watched in horror as their homes and...
by Burt Lake Band | May 25, 2024 | Book, Culture, History
This podcast originally published on Points North. October 15, 1900 was a dark day for a small group of Native Americans near the tip of Michigan’s lower peninsula. It’s the day a group of white men burned their village to the ground, leaving many families homeless....
by Burt Lake Band | May 25, 2024 | News
This article was originally published at Indian Country News. https://ictnews.org/news/judge-grants-delay-in-rule-making-on-federal-recognition-re-petitions By Joaqlin Estus ICT D.C. District Judge Amy German Jackson has given the Department of Interior another two...
by Burt Lake Band | Apr 22, 2024 | Culture, History
By Richard Wiles The full article can be found here. https://gwoodazure.blob.core.windows.net/areahistoryfiles/cheboiganing%20bands_wiles.pdf Dr. Charles Cleland, retired Michigan State University Professor of Anthropology, and author of the book, “Rites of Conquest,”...
