Editing Detroit (section)

===Indigenous settlement===
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[[Paleo-Indians]] inhabited areas near Detroit as early as 11,000 years ago including the culture referred to as the [[Mound Builders]].<ref name="lemke">{{cite journal|last1=Lemke|first1=Ashley|title=Great Lakes Rangifer and Paleoindians: Archaeological and Paleontological Caribou Remains from Michigan|journal=PaleoAmerica|date=2015|volume=1|issue=3|page=277|doi=10.1179/2055557115Y.0000000003|s2cid=129841191 |issn=2055-5563}}</ref> By the 17th century, the region was inhabited by [[Huron people|Huron]], [[Odawa]], [[Potawatomi]], and [[Iroquois]] peoples.<ref name="teasdale">{{cite journal|last1=Teasdale|first1=Guillaume|title=Old Friends and New Foes: French Settlers and Indians in the Detroit River Border Region|journal=Michigan Historical Review|date=2012|volume=38|issue=2|pages=35–62|doi=10.5342/michhistrevi.38.2.0035}}</ref> The area is known by the [[Anishinaabe]] people as ''Waawiiyaataanong'', translating to 'where the water curves around'.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|last=DeVito|first=Lee|title=How New Red Order and MOCAD could redefine 'land acknowledgment' for Indigenous people|url=https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/how-new-red-order-and-mocad-could-redefine-land-acknowledgment-for-indigenous-people/Content?oid=25854180|access-date=June 27, 2021|website=Detroit Metro Times|language=en}}</ref>

The first Europeans did not penetrate into the region and reach the straits of Detroit until French [[Missionary|missionaries]] and traders worked their way around the Iroquois League, with whom they were at war in the 1630s.<ref name="AmHeritageBk">
{{cite encyclopedia |year=1961
|title=The American Heritage Book of Indians
|author=William Brandon
|editor=Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
|pages=187–219|publisher=American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc.
|lccn=61-14871
}}</ref> The Huron and [[Neutral Confederacy|Neutral people]] held the north side of Lake Erie until the 1650s, when the Iroquois pushed them and the [[Erie people]] away from the lake and its [[beaver]]-rich feeder streams in the [[Beaver Wars]] of 1649–1655.<ref name="AmHeritageBk"/> By the 1670s, the war-weakened Iroquois laid claim to as far south as the [[Ohio River]] valley in northern [[Kentucky]] as hunting grounds,<ref name="AmHeritageBk"/> and had absorbed many other Iroquoian peoples after defeating them in war.<ref name="AmHeritageBk"/> For the next hundred years, virtually no British or French action was contemplated without consultation with the Iroquois or consideration of their likely response.<ref name="AmHeritageBk"/>