Indian Burial Ground, Michigan
by Michael Rucker
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Title
Indian Burial Ground, Michigan
Artist
Michael Rucker
Medium
Photograph - Photo / Digital
Description
A Historic Old Indian Burial Grounds located in Bay Mills in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on Lake Superior, a native American Cemetery rests along the roadway near Whitefish Point where the Famous Edmonds Fitzgerald sank.
Indians from the tribes of Chippewa and Ojibwa & Cherokee lived in Northern michigan recording back to the 1700's, the Indian Burial Grounds is closed to public, but fron the edge of the graveyard you can see wooden spirit houses over the graves, during earlier times, the spirit houses were made of tree bark from the trees of Elm & Birch and placed over the graves, as time moved on graves were protected by spirit houses built of lumber.
The wooden houses protected the graves, and held weapons and resources that the dead would need to sustain them on the journey to the land of the spirits.
At the base of the large White Pine Tree a sign reads about and Indian Girl who planted a small tree at her fathers Grave in 1841, the tree is very large and nearing 200 years old now, the little Girls name was Eliza Waishkey and Her Father was the Cherokee Cheif John Waishkey.
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July 4th, 2017
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