Over the next 200 years, the Ojibwa tribe populated the area, and attracted the attention of trappers and traders throughout the Great Lakes.

The Ojibwa tribe had an elite band of warriors called the Wendigokan.

Bender was born in Crow Wing County, Minnesota as a member of the Ojibwa tribe - he faced discrimination throughout his career.

Another Ojibwa tribe lived in the area of Port Carling, then called Obajewanung.

The first occupants of Many Point Lake and its surroundings were Native Americans of the Ojibwa tribe, who gave the lake its name for its many peninsulas.

Up into the early 1900s, the local Ojibwa tribe had a visible presence in the town.

He was traded to the junior team in Sault Ste. Marie in 1991 and found a savior in Ted Nolan, also a member of the Ojibwa tribe.

The Rev. John Hascall, a Franciscan Capuchin priest and medicine man from the Ojibwa tribe in Michigan, was the most vocal critic.

By that time, swiping copper from the region was extremely taboo and forbidden by the Ojibwa tribe.

As of 2006, the Mackinac Wilderness was managed jointly by the U.S. Forest Service and the Ojibwa tribe of Native Americans.