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The name "Manistee" is from an Ojibwe word whose derivation is uncertain. [4] However, it may be from ministigweyaa, "river with islands at its mouth". [5] [6] The Ojibwe (Chippewa in the United States) and Ottawa peoples lived along the river, with the Ottawa having a reservation on the river from 1836.
The Band is the successor apparent to nine of the 19 historical Grand River Bands of Ottawa peoples who lived along the Thornapple, Grand, White, Pere Marquette, Manistee and its tributary Little Manistee rivers. The Little River Band operates its own constitutional government; it has three parts: executive, legislative and judicial. [6]
The permanent villages of the Grand River bands of Ottawa, including those nine Bands whose descendants compose the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, were located on the Grand, Thornapple, Flat, White, Père Marquette, and Big and Little Manistee rivers in Michigan's western Lower Peninsula.
From 1836 to 1848, much of the Manistee River Valley, including Manistee itself, was an Ottawa Reservation. During the lumbering era of the late 1800s, Manistee became a significant site for lumber mills.
Pigeon River (Ottawa County), empties into Lake Michigan; Pigeon River (St. Joseph County), empties into the St. Joseph River ... Pine River (Lake/Manistee/Osceola ...
Keewaycooshcum's agreement to the terms of the 1821 treaty substantially hurt his prestige with the Grand River Ottawa. While he had been among the most powerful Ottawa leaders prior to the treaty, by 1835, he had been exiled from the Flat River to the Manistee River far to the north, the furthest possible outlands of Grand River society. [5]
The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians (LRBOI) Sturgeon Program began in 2001 in Manistee, MI. In 2002 they successfully documented natural reproduction of lake sturgeon by capturing larvae (newly hatched fish) from the Big Manistee River. The Streamside Rearing Facility for lake sturgeon on the Big Manistee River became operational in the ...
The original name of the dam was Junction Hydro, but it was renamed to honor a Consumers board of directors member, Charles W. Tippy. The dam spans the Manistee River about 170 miles west from its headwaters, and approximately 20 miles east of its mouth with Lake Michigan, which includes Manistee Lake in Manistee as well. [1]