Resources and Further Reading

The best way to learn more about the Indigenous peoples of Michigan is to read what they have to say about their own nations on their websites. A collected list of federal and state recognized tribes is listed here, along with a variety of other resources for further reading.

Federally recognized tribes of Michigan

• Bay Mills Indian Community
• Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians 
• Hannahville Indian Community
• Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
• Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians
• Little River Band of Ottawa Indians 
• Little Traverse Bay Band of Ottawa Indians
• Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians
• Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi
• Pokagon Band of Potawatomi
• Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan
• Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians

State recognized tribes of Michigan

• Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians
• Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians
• Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians
• Swan Creek Black River Confederated Ojibwa Tribes of Michigan

Michigan history

• Walk of Remembrance of the Burt Lake Village burnout at EEB annual retreat
• A Dream of Fundamental Justice
• The Potawatomi Experience of Federal Removal Policy
• Eric Hemenway Talks Indian Removal Act, Treaty of 1836 and Odawa Leadership in Northern Michigan
• Early History, City of Ann Arbor Parks
• The Dawn of Detroit
• The Lost Treaty of Fort Meigs; or, Why Didn’t the Myaamia Sell Their Rights to Land in Northwest Ohio?
• Sandy Lake Tragedy

Taking care of the land and water

• SEAS student team creates video highlighting Anishinaabek Caucus concerns regarding Line 5 pipeline
• Huron River Watershed Council
• Natural Area Preservation
• Program in the Environment Club
• The Tishman Center for Social Justice and the Environment

Further reading

We are also indebted to the gendered and racialized invisible labor that makes settler colonial institutions’ work of collecting, curating, and encouraging knowledge production possible. To keep reading:

• Digital Land Acknowledgment, Adrienne Wong of SpiderWeb
• Diversity in Academic Libraries
• IllumiNative
• Land Grab Universities
• Land. And the University Is Settler Colonial
• Native Land Digital Map
• RISE
• The Work of Women of Color Academic Librarians in Higher Education: Perspectives on Emotional and Invisible Labor
• U-M Library Indigenous Resources Guide
• We aren’t like dogs’ Battling Blood Quantum
• Bentley Historical Library U-M Football Rosters
• Engel's boys and U-M alike could always count on Hall of Fame-bound Paul Johnson
• Indian Citizenship Act
• Indians Sue U. AADL
• Land Reparations & Indigenous Solidarity Toolkit
• Land-grab universities by Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone
• MICHIGAN NATIVE AMERICAN TUITION WAIVER PROGRAM, CMU
• Paul James Johnson (Obituary 2023)
• So you want to acknowledge the land? by Summer Wilkie