What the Ojibwe Remembered About the Miners Who Came Before Them — Recorded in 1894

When American mining companies pushed into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the 1840s, chasing the richest deposit of native copper on Earth, they expected to be the first ones there. They were not. Below the surface, in pit after pit along Lake Superior and out on Isle Royale, their crews kept breaking into workings that were already dug — shafts sunk into solid rock, some of them deeper than a house is tall, propped with timber, drained of water, the copper veins already stripped and carried off. Stone hammers lay scattered by the thousands where they had been set down. The companies had come to open a frontier, and instead they had walked into someone else's abandoned industry.

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