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Early Detroit
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French were therefore driven to the difficult and circuitous route of the Ottawa river, Lake Nippising and Lake Huron.
Then, too, the true seat of the Algonquin power was in the region around Lake Superior. There dwelt the Chippewas, the largest and most powerful of all the Algonquin nations. There burned those eternal fires whose extinction presaged the overthrow of Indian power. The Ottawas had their camp-fires in the northern portion of the Lower Peninsula, but their settlements did not extend below Saginaw on the east and Grand River on the West.
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