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The Metro: A new plaque will honor the past and present of the Three Fires Confederacy
The Anishinaabe alliance makes up the the Three Fires Confederacy. It includes Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi. This land was and remains spiritual.
It was a place to gather and hunt. A place to convene with nature and flow with the river, no matter where it led.
A new land acknowledgement plaque is being unveiled this weekend at Greenfield Village. It’s a step toward visibility, toward truth-telling, and toward honoring a history that too often goes untold.
But moments like this are about more than a plaque, they’re about the ongoing work of making Indigenous voices seen and heard.
Heather Bruegl is the curator of political and civic engagement at The Henry Ford. Travis Schuyler is director of programming for the North American Indian Association of Detroit. They joined The Metro to talk about the unveiling and the new plaque.
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