Show great lakes area yields valuable data on indians indians had a feast on the beach of an island in lake huron at some time between and A D the fact that this feast was held however is not nearly as important as the fact that there were indians in the great lakes region from 1100 to 1400 years ago until recently no definite evidence had ever been produced to prove that there were human inhabitants of this area at such an early date searching for early indian data on great cloche island just north of Manito ulin island in the georgian bay region dr E F greenman university of michigan archeologist archaeologist arche discovered the remains of this ancient indian meal later dr greenman returned to the island with dr george M stanley michigan geologist to determine the age of the find evidence that indians held such a feast on the beach of great cloche island consists of the discolored sand and stones on which their fires were built scraps of foreign flint and quartz and bones of fish and animals which made up their meal evidently the meal consisted of moose deer beaver sturgeon and another unidentified type of fish the beach on which the indians ate their meal now 23 feet above the water of lake huron says dr stanley was on the water level when the red men visited the island hundreds of years ago |