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Early Detroit
Besides the soldiers, many traders, adventurers and voyageurs made the post their home.
Outside of the fort, and within pistol shot, were the villages of the Indians, and there were occasions when it is said six or seven thousand savages gathered under its pickets, composed chiefly of Ottawas, Chippewas and Hurons, but there were amongst them representatives from nearly all the tribes and nations, from the Iroquois of New York, to the Dakotas of the far west. For nearly three leagues about the fort the land had been cultivated by the Indians, and produced Indian corn for the supply of both soldiers and savages.
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