Ann Arbor is set to celebrate its 200th Anniversary Celebration in 2024. In preparation for that, we did some limited research and came up with a timeline of the history of indigenous people living in southeast Michigan from the time of first contact with Europeans to the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
We felt the need to explain the lack on indigenous communities within Washentaw County and how this Great Absence came to be. Without access to a Potowatomi history of this this time region in southeastern Michigan, we had to rely upon white history and accounts.
Please consider this timeline a very rough draft. As new research gets published, it can get updated. See the timeline here.
