Odawa

The Odawa were an Anishinaabe people whose homelands included Manitoulin Island and the Bruce Peninsula on Lake Huron. They traded furs, food and other goods between communities.

The Odawa allied with the Ojibwe and Potawatomi in the Council of Three Fires. After the French built Fort Detroit in 1701, many Odawa moved nearby. In 1763 the Odawa war leader Pontiac besieged the British-held fort but failed to take it, making peace in 1766. Under the 1807 Treaty of Detroit, the Odawa and other peoples ceded land in Michigan and Ohio to the United States.