Editing Emmet County, Michigan (section)

===Native Americans and New France===
[[Image:1842 Tonedagana Cheboygan Kishkawkee Wyandot PresqueIsle counties Michigan.jpg|thumb|A detail from ''[[:File:1842 A new map of Michigan with its canals roads distances by H.S. Tanner.jpg|A New Map of Michigan with its Canals, Roads & Distances]]'' (1842) by [[Henry Schenck Tanner]], showing Emmet County as Tonedagana, the county's name from 1840 to 1843.<ref name="Newberry">{{cite web |author=Newberry Library |title=Michigan: Individual County Chronologies |url=http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/MI_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161106151503/http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/MI_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm |archive-date=November 6, 2016 |access-date=November 4, 2016 |website=Atlas of County Historical Boundaries}}</ref> Several nearby counties are also shown with names that would later be changed.]]
[[Odawa]] history records that Emmet County was thickly populated by indigenous peoples called the Mush-co-desh, which means "the prairie tribe". They had an agrarian society and were said to have "shaped the land by making the woodland into prairie as they abandoned their old worn out gardens which formed grassy plains". Ottawa tradition claims that they slaughtered from forty to fifty thousand Mush-co-desh and drove the rest from the land after the Mush-co-desh insulted an Ottawa war party.<ref>Blackbird, Andrew J.(1887): ''History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan'', The Ypsilantian Job Printing House [https://books.google.com/books?id=bX8CAAAAYAAJ&q=blackbird+mush-co-desh].</ref>

The Odawa were important prior to European colonization for their trading network throughout the Great Lakes area. The Odawa of nearby [[L'Arbre Croche]] fished, hunted, and grew and gathered produce, including corn, squash, onions, cucumbers, turnips, cabbages, melon, and wild strawberries.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Karamanski |first=Theodore J. |url=http://archive.org/details/blackbirdssongan0000kara |title=Blackbird's song : Andrew J. Blackbird and the Odawa people |date=2012 |publisher=Michigan State University Press |isbn=978-1-61186-050-4 |location=East Lansing |pages=6, 8–9}}</ref> The Odawa bartered with the French at [[Mackinac Island]], a major fur-trading center where [[Lake Huron]] meets [[Lake Michigan]]. They traded food, bark, and canoes for goods – like clothing and glass and porcelain beads. The canoes and food, including dried fish and meat and produce, supplied the fur traders who worked in the wilderness of the Great Lakes and the Upper Mississippi regions.{{sfn|Karamanski|2012|pp=8–9}} They retained this influence into the 18th century, as French traders relied on them to take furs east from tribes they traded with to the north and west. When French explorers first came to this area, they claimed it as part of [[New France]], based in today's Quebec province.

[[File:Anishinaabe-Anishinini Distribution Map.svg|thumb|Homelands of [[Anishinaabe]] and [[Oji-Cree]], ca. 1800]]
The Ottawa and [[Ojibwe]] tribes were the principal inhabitants of this area, extending across to Manitoulin Island and the Bruce Peninsula of Ontario, Canada. The [[French colonization of the Americas|French]] established [[Fort Michilimackinac]] in about 1715. It was a trading post and the basis of a multicultural settlement that developed around it. Seasonally numerous Native Americans of various tribes would come to trade there.

Pierre du Jaunay, a Jesuit priest from France, served as a missionary at Michilimackinac beginning in 1735. From the Sainte-Anne log church, he served the French and later British residents, neighboring Native Americans, and visiting traders and explorers for almost 30 years.<ref name="Du Jaunay bio">{{Cite web |title=Biography – Du Jaunay, Pierre – Volume IV (1771-1800)  |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/du_jaunay_pierre_4E.html |access-date=March 25, 2022 |website=Dictionary of Canadian Biography}}</ref> Du Jaunay split his time between the Sainte-Anne church and the Saint-Ignace at L’Arbre Croche mission in Cross Village, where he had a farm. He was assisted by several French priests and some Native American slaves.<ref name="Du Jaunay bio" />