Michigan Facts
This is Michigan's largest city.
What is Detroit?
This item was often the main source of food for the Native Americans.
What is fish?
This group of Native Americans depended more upon farming.
Who are the Potawatomi
He was believed to be the first European to visit Michigan.
Who is Etienne Brule?
He took a voyage with Jacques Marquette in 1673 to find the mouth of the Mississippi River.
Who is Louis Jolliet?
What is 1/5th (20%)?
This type of shelter used by the Native Americans was easy to take down and transport.
What is a wigwam?
This tribe traveled many miles in canoes.
He was the first great explorer to use the St. Lawrence.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
He was a famous Jesuit missionary.
Who is Jacques Marquette?
What is four?
These homes were built by the Huron tribe to be permanent and hold up to 20 families.
What are longhouses?
This tribe lived along the St. Joseph River and Kankakee River.
Who are the Miami?
He set up Fort Pontchartrain in present day Detroit along with the help of Native Americans.
Who is Lamothe Cadillac?
This tribes main source of food was the wild rice they gathered from swampy areas.
Who are the Menominee?
Michigan has this many counties.
What is 83?
They were the first residents of Michigan.
Who are the Paleo Indians?
This tribe was the largest in Michigan and still has the most people living here.
Who are the Ojibwa?
Returning to Montreal by foot, this man and his men became the first non-Native American to cross the Lower Peninsula.
Who is Robert La Salle?
These inventions came from Native American tribes: Canoes, Snowshoes, and these.
What are toboggans?
This is the highest point in Michigan
What is Mt. Arvon?
The Hopewell Indians made tobacco pipes shaped like animals out of this material.
What is stone?
This tribe’s name came from the French and meant “hair of a wild pig.”
Who are the Huron?
He was an experienced soldier and sailor who attempted to set up a settlement in the New World and was known as the “Father of New France.”
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
Native Americans passed down history from one generation to another in this way.
What is oral (verbal/spoken)?