The Seventh Fire: The Anishinaabe in the Upper Great Lakes

Narrated by Leora Tadgerson, this gives a brief history of the Anishinaabe people before European contact and their migration to the Upper Great Lakes. It features the seven fires prophecy, which foretold of their migration, colonization and rebirth.

Circle of life

Early History/Pre-Colonial

Simon Francois Daumont de Saint-Lussan

French Era

Chief Pontiac in 1763 taking up the war hatchet in French and Indian War

British Era

First protestant mission is built on Mackinac Island

American Era

Students in front of a boarding school

Boarding School Era

Members of the Native Student Association at the firesite at NMU

Self Determination Era