Manitoulin Island

Seems like I've written about Manitoulin before. I wonder what it means. Sounds holy.


Please feel free to set me right where I go wrong.


Manitoulin may be the biggest fresh water island in the world, but it is only one of the about 30,000 on Lake Huron. Nice place for a boat or canoe.


I guess that there are seven or eight Indian Reservations in the area. The island is probably important to most of the people on those Reservations. To some it might seem a bit like Vatican City.


I can't name the tribes, clans, or groups there. They have probably been called Huron or Ojibwa. I believe that there are people there who proudly call themselves Wikemikong and M'chigeeng; the later reminds me of Michigan.


Who will tell me more of these things?

Manitoulin Island

I wish that someone who knew a lot about Manitoulin Island on Lake Huron would go there with me. It seems not only a lovely place, but also an excellent place to start learning some interesting 'new' Amerindian culture and history. Manitoulin seems an great present day, real life location to start learning about the peoples related to the Great Lakes and greater Mississippi Valley trading system and some high points of its very long existence!


I'd bet a small amount that there are Indian Peoples who still hold sacred ceremonies there.


Upon doing a bit of reading I find that someone believes that Indians may still make up 40% of the population in the area. I find that someone, besides myself, believes that many Indians consider the Island sacred and that some ancient teachings are carried on there.