thumb|Homelands of Anishinaabe and Oji-Cree, ca. 1800 The Ottawa and Ojibwe tribes were the principal inhabitants of this area, extending across to Manitoulin Island and the Bruce Peninsula of Ontario, Canada. The French established Fort Michilimackinac in about 1715. It was a trading post and the basis of a multicultural settlement that developed around it. Seasonally numerous Native Americans of various tribes would come to trade there.
thumb|Homelands of Anishinaabe and Oji-Cree, ca. 1800 The Ottawa and Ojibwe tribes were the principal inhabitants of this area, extending across to Manitoulin Island and the Bruce Peninsula of Ontario, Canada. The French established Fort Michilimackinac in about 1715. It was a trading post and the basis of a .multicultural settlement that developed around it Seasonally numerous Native Americans of various tribes would come to trade there.