MARQUETTE — Heritage Program Manager of the Hiawatha National Forest Eric Drake, PhD, will present his talk “Working to Stay Together in ‘Forsaken Out of the Way Places:’ Investigating Anishinaabe Logging Settlements as Sites of Social Refuge and Resilience” on Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. The presentation will be held live online.

In his presentation Drake will discuss stories of some of Michigan’s oldest Native American tribes. Topics will include Anishinaabe labor in the logging industries of the central Upper Peninsula and the history of the Nahma Indian community in Delta County, through Eric Drake’s archaeological investigation of Native American logging camps as sites of social refuge.

This live online slide presentation will include time for questions. Register ahead for the online program, visit marquettehistory.org/things-to-do. A small donation to the Marquette Regional History Center is required to join this program, which is supported in part by the Community Foundation of Marquette County.