Madeline Island has a rich history, and is the largest of the twenty-two islands making up the Apostle Islands archipelago. The Island is named after Madeleine Cadotte, daughter of Chief White ...

Frank Vaisvilas is a Report for America corps member who covers Native American issues in Wisconsin based at the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Contact him at fvaisvilas@gannett.com or 815-260-2262.

About 20 percent of Mackinac Island’s year-round residents are identified in U.S. Census figures as Native American. “We get stuck in the 1800s and left there,” Hemenway said of native history.