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=== Native American settlements === [[File:Norton_Mound_Group_2.jpg|left|thumb|Mound H of the [[Norton Mound group]]]] Native Americans of the [[Hopewell culture|Hopewellian culture]] inhabited the region from ca. 400 B.C. to A.D. 400. Classified as the [[Goodall focus]], a Hopewell sub-grouping, they created a series of structures known as [[Norton Mound group]] with the mounds probably being constructed in the first century AD.<ref name="rn">{{cite journal |last=Smith |first=Robert |date=February 1966 |title=Excavating the Hopewell Burial Mounds at Grand Rapids |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N9FVAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA37 |journal=Research News |volume=16 |number=8}}</ref>{{sfn|Simon-Tibbe|Branz|White|2009|pp=7}} [[Odawa]] tribes were established in the area near present-day Wyoming, with the village of the [[Sachem|ogema]] Black Skin, natively known as Muck-i-ta-oska or Mukatasha, ranging from the southwest present-day Grand Rapids to the Grand River across from the Norton Mound group, with the mouth of the Black Skin Creek leading into the Grand River across from the mounds.{{sfn|Simon-Tibbe|Branz|White|2009|pp=8}} Where what is now [[Grandville, Michigan]], a prairie existed west of Wyoming where up to ten native families under the ogema As-to-quet, who were friendly with early settlers in the area, held planting grounds.{{sfn|Simon-Tibbe|Branz|White|2009|pp=8}}
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