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Burt Lake Indian Village, 1890. The Burt Lake Burn-Out was a forced relocation of the Burt Lake Band of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians in northern Michigan's "Tip of the Mitt" region on 15 October 1900. On that day a sheriff and his deputies burned down the band's village at the behest of a local land developer who claimed to have purchased the ...
After the burn-out, the Burt Lake Band, historically recognized by the federal government, became landless and lost its federal acknowledgment. Since 1985, the band has petitioned the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to regain its recognition, as the community has held together culturally for these decades. [9]
The cabin was the sole surviving cabin from the Burt Lake Band Burnout in October 1900, likely due to its proximity to the church. Frank Mundt is pictured beside the log cabin. Mundt donated the ...
Burt Lake is a 17,120 acres (69.3 km 2) lake in Cheboygan County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The western shore of the lake is on the boundary with Emmet County . The lake is named after William Austin Burt , who, together with John Mullett , made a federal survey of the area from 1840 to 1843.
Ethnic cleansing in the United States, the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, and religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making a region ethnically homogeneous.
A map of the Six Nations land cessions. The Six Nations land cessions were a series of land cessions by the Haudenosaunee and Lenape which ceded large amounts of land, including both recently conquered territories acquired from other indigenous peoples in the Beaver Wars, and ancestral lands to the Thirteen Colonies and the United States.
Indigenous tribal members explain the historical context of sage smudging and whether or not burning the sacred plant is culturally inappropriate.
The Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians are descendants of Anishinaabe people who migrated from somewhere in the Northeast to the Great Lakes area [1] (now known as Michigan) sometime around 1500 CE, and the remnants of the Michinemackinawgo who previously inhabited Mackinac Island and the Straits area. [2]