Beaver Island Archive

A primary-source archive & encyclopedia

The Beaver Island Archipelago

Fifteen islands in northern Lake Michigan; a place called Amikiminis and Amikogenda, les Isles du Castor, and Beaver Island. This archive holds the sources — treaties, charts, dictionaries, newspapers, songs — and this encyclopedia cites them, claim by claim, across 5,078 articles.

Reference map of the Beaver Island archipelago with bathymetric depth tinting showing the shallow shelf connecting the islands
Plate I — drawn from the archive's own data. More in the Atlas.

Start somewhere

Beaver IslandGarden IslandOjibwa IslandJames Jesse StrangIrish settlement of Beaver IslandAnishinaabe presence in the archipelago

The collection

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