KCHI WIIKWEDONG ANISHINAABE HISTORY PROJECT
For decades, one of the only vestiges of Anishinaabe history acknowledged in Traverse City has been the ‘Old Indian Trail, Cadillac to Traverse City,’ which is marked by white concrete trail markers.
The Old Indian Trail is one part of this story of Anishinaabe people and land around the ‘Big Bay’, the Kchi Wiikwedong. The markers were installed in the 1960s and 1980s, and are the inspiration for this current project.
Kchi Wiikwedong Anishinaabek who live in the Grand Traverse region today are the keepers of their history and traditions. This project invites their ways of telling their history and presents them through signage, film, sound, art, and full bilingual translation of text wherever possible.
The Kchi Wiikwedong Anishinaabe History Project is organized through the Traverse Area Historical Society and is generously supported by: