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MRHC presentation rescheduled

MARQUETTE — The Marquette Regional History Center presents: Sites Of Refuge And Resilience: Anishinaabe Logging Settlements has been rescheduled for 6:30 p.m. May 6.

Eric Drake, PhD, Heritage Program Manager of the Hiawatha National Forest, will present his talk: Working to Stay Together in “Forsaken Out of the Way Places:” Investigating Anishinaabe Logging Settlements as Sites of Social Refuge and Resilience.

In his talk he will cover stories of some of Michigan’s oldest Native-American tribes. Learn about Anishinaabe labor in the logging industries of the central Upper Peninsula, the history of the Nahma Indian community in Delta County, and the archaeological investigation of Native-American logging camps as sites of social refuge. $5 suggested donation. Visit marquettehistory.org or call 906-226-3571 for more info.

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