- Date
- to 1854
- Kind
- Migration
- Where
- Garden Island
- Eras
- Indigenous eraStrang era
- Concepts
- migrationanishinaabe-odawaeducationhistoriography
- Within
- Garden Island
Summary
In an 1854 regional account, James Jesse Strang states that the people of Garden Island had previously lived at the north end of Beaver Island and had moved to Garden Island within the preceding six years. In the same passage, he reports literacy among the community in its own language. The entry makes those two source-specific assertions discoverable as a connection between the main island and Garden Island.
The book gives only a six-year lookback from 1854, not a date. This event is therefore marked as occurring by 1854, with no start date asserted.
Evidence and limits
The wording is from Strang’s own partisan regional history, not an Anishinaabe account, Indian-agency record, parish register, school roll, or census. Its use of the period category “Indian villages” is retained only in the source note.
The passage does not establish a single group identity, a compulsory or voluntary move, a route, a cause, an exact origin or destination boundary, land rights, language name, literacy rate, school curriculum, or the population of Garden Island. It cannot by itself be treated as evidence that a later Garden Island community had the same membership as the one described here.
See also
Sources
- Described in this archive: Ancient and Modern Michilimackinac, 1854.Strang’s account names Garden Island as one of five “Indian villages” in Emmet and says that its people “formerly resided on the North end of Beaver Island, and have removed to Garden within six years.” It also says a majority of males and many females could read, and some write, in “their own language.” These are the author’s 1854 assertions. The source does not identify people by name, give a move date or cause, define the settlement boundary, describe whether all residents moved, identify the language, provide a school record, or establish a population count for Garden Island.
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Reported move of Garden Island community from northern Beaver Island, by 1854”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/reported-garden-island-community-move-c1848/, accessed [date], citing James J. Strang, *Ancient and Modern Michilimackinac, Including an Account of the Controversy Between Mackinac and the Mormons* (Saint James, Beaver Island, 1854), p. 21..
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