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Michigan Let’s take a trip, back through time, to before any of
us were born, before World War I and II, before the American
Civil War and before Michigan even was called Michigan. What is
the story of Michigan’s birth as a land and a people? Most of
Michigan’s story is unwritten. It is almost entirely an American
Indian story. Almost everything we know about the thousands of
years before English-speaking settlers we have learned through
Native American tradition and clues discovered by
archaeologists. Thousands of years ago, the land we know as
Michigan was shaped by glaciers. Long before there were people
living in Michigan, ice more than a mile thick moved slowly back
and forth across the state. The ice acted like a huge bulldozer,
scraping and gouging the land surface. As the ice melted, the
water formed lakes and rivers. The largest of these lakes are
the Great Lakes, which surround most of Michigan. Paleo-Indian
peoples probably came into North Am