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It's now 350 years since Jesuit priest Father Jacques Marquette and fur trader Louis ... live music, food, kids activities and more. All events are free to attend.
The story of Father Jacques Marquette, the 17th-century French Jesuit whose Upper Peninsula mission became St. Ignace, will now be told from the perspective of Native Americans as a national ...
Explorer Jacques Marquette wrote in 1674 that a swath of land along Lake Michigan’s southwestern edge, then home to the Potawatomi Indians, “was of no value.” One could hardly imagine that ...