Michigan Facts
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200

This is Michigan's largest city.

What is Detroit?

200

This item was often the main source of food for the Native Americans.

What is fish?

200

This group of Native Americans depended more upon farming.

Who are the Potawatomi

200

He was believed to be the first European to visit Michigan.

Who is Etienne Brule?

200

He took a voyage with Jacques Marquette in 1673 to find the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Who is Louis Jolliet?

400
This much of the world's fresh water supply is found in the Great Lakes.

What is 1/5th (20%)?

400

This type of shelter used by the Native Americans was easy to take down and transport.

What is a wigwam?

400

This tribe traveled many miles in canoes.

Who are the Ottowa?
400

He was the first great explorer to use the St. Lawrence.

Who is Jacques Cartier?

400

He was a famous Jesuit missionary.

Who is Jacques Marquette?

600
Michigan borders this many of the Great Lakes.

What is four?

600

These homes were built by the Huron tribe to be permanent and hold up to 20 families.

What are longhouses?

600

This tribe lived along the St. Joseph River and Kankakee River.

Who are the Miami?

600

He set up Fort Pontchartrain in present day Detroit along with the help of Native Americans.

Who is Lamothe Cadillac?

600

This tribes main source of food was the wild rice they gathered from swampy areas.

Who are the Menominee?

800

Michigan has this many counties.

What is 83?

800

They were the first residents of Michigan.

Who are the Paleo Indians?

800

This tribe was the largest in Michigan and still has the most people living here.

Who are the Ojibwa?

800

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?

800

These inventions came from Native American tribes: Canoes, Snowshoes, and these.

What are toboggans?

1000

This is the highest point in Michigan

What is Mt. Arvon?

1000

The Hopewell Indians made tobacco pipes shaped like animals out of this material.

What is stone?

1000

This tribe’s name came from the French and meant “hair of a wild pig.”

Who are the Huron?

1000

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?

1000

Native Americans passed down history from one generation to another in this way.

What is oral (verbal/spoken)?