Living Our Culture

A Nation of Firsts

The Anishinaabeg have been in their homelands along this stretch of Lake Superior shoreline for at least 2,000 years according to our oral histories and archaeological findings. The families that make Bay Mills a thriving community can trace their direct ancestors back to the ancient Agawa pictographs, into the fur trade of the 1600s, and through treaty struggles two centuries later. Bay Mills formally re-established its nation-to-nation status with the United States with the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. Since then, Bay Mills Indian Community has evolved into a tribe that has set standards for other tribes across the country. We are truly a part of a Nation of Firsts. This site has been created by the youth of Bay Mills Indian Community, to have some fun and show the world what we're all about.

Please, if anyone has any comments/questions/concerns about anything on this website, feel free to email Julie Timmer at jatimmer[at]bmic.virtmuseum.org.

All of the details of the project and all of the acknowledgments are on this inevitable page of links.

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