This lighthouse sits near the Ojibwa community of Bay Mills. It is called the Iroquois Point Lighthouse. The Iroquois Confederacy became a powerful force in the 1600's Great Lakes Region. They had forced the French to sign treaties and using dutch muskets had forced many tribes out of the area in order to monopolize the fur trades. A large Iroquois war party camped at this point one night in 1662 in order to attack the nearby Ojibwa Village. Someone should have told the Iroquois that the Ojibwa had ran off several tribes from this area including the Sioux of George Custer fame. The Ojibwa call this "The place of the Iroquois Bones". The Ojibwa killed all but two Iroquois who were sent back by canoe to tell people not to have any farther ideas about messing with the Ojibwa. The French recount seeing bones on the beach here well into the 1700's. |
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