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Enrollment soon averaged 150 Native American pupils per year with >100 receiving free board, room, and clothing from the mission family. The southeast point of Mackinac Island became known as Mission Point. [14] [1] Designed as a residence and boarding school, Mission House was also home for the mission families.
Mackinac Island (/ ˈ m æ k ə n ɔː / MAK-ə-naw, locally / ˈ m æ k ə n ə / MAK-ə-nə; French: Île Mackinac; Ojibwe: Mishimikinaak ᒥᔑᒥᑭᓈᒃ; Ottawa: Michilimackinac) is an island and resort area, covering 4.35 square miles (11.3 km 2) in land area, in the U.S. state of Michigan.
Fort Michilimackinac fell to an Ojibwa attack during the Native American uprising of 1763, sometimes called Pontiac's War. [6] It was reoccupied by the British in September 1764. In 1780, during the American Revolution , British commandant Patrick Sinclair moved the British trading and military post to Mackinac Island , which was held by the ...
The state general fund made up the remaining $1,836,800. Some public critics have proposed that the Mackinac Island State Park and the Commission be privatized. [5] Management practices have been deemed effective in years past in independent audits. [6] Budget cuts and ‘belt tightening’ have been on the agency's agenda for several years. [7]
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The Mission House was designed as an American Indian boarding school for students of Native American, meti, and Euro-American ancestry.The students were boarded at the school, taught manual crafts and rudimentary liberal arts, and trained to adopt the standards and living patterns characteristic of New England and the American East Coast.
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