Editing Sebewaing, Michigan (section)

==Geography==
*According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the village has a total area of {{convert|1.71|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, of which {{convert|1.58|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is land and {{convert|0.13|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is water.<ref name="Gazetteer files">{{cite web|title=US Gazetteer files 2010|url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=November 25, 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702145235/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt|archivedate=July 2, 2012}}</ref>  It is said that the name Sebewaing derives from the [[Anishinaabe language|Ojibwe]] word ''ziibiiweng'' meaning "place by the river," but there is no clear, early, documentation for this word or meaning. Perhaps, the name Sebewaing meant "river in the furriery or pelt country." That will come from the Chippewa or Ojibwe phrase "Zibii-wayaan-aki."<ref>[https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/ Ojibwe People's Dictionary]</ref> The 18th century French called the Thumb of Michigan les Pays Peles meaning the land of pelts or furs, the pelt country. The Cass River to the south of Saginaw Bay in this same Upper Thumb region early on was called Onottoway-Sebewing.<ref>History of Livingston County, Michigan</ref> The Cass River with its headwaters in the upper Thumb of Michigan has its confluence or outlet into the Saginaw River that empties into the central part of Saginaw Bay. Wiscoggin Creek, whose outlet is into Saginaw Bay at today's Village of Unionville, Tuscola County, in Michigan's Upper Thumb, was in 1855 called Sebewaning River.<ref>John Farmer Map 1855</ref> Previously, a short distance away, the Sebewaing River, in today's Huron County, was called by the French Le Rivier du Fil meaning "the thread river." The mouth of the Thread River that today's is the Sebewaing River in Huron County is the location of the Village of Sebewaing. Here, the Sebewaing River pours out north into Saginaw Bay. Being on the banks of the river and bay shoreline, the village was certainly a place to weave strings or threads to make nets, fishing lines, snares, bow strings, necklaces, and dreamcatchers. Native American's often made string or thread from Willow trees that they planted along strategic rivers.
Sebewaing is considered to be part of [[the Thumb]] of [[Michigan]], which in turn is a subregion of the [[Flint/Tri-Cities]].