Kewadin ( ) is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in the
U.S. state
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of
Michigan
Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...
. The community is located in
Milton Township,
Antrim County, and is located on the northern shore of
Elk Lake, roughly northeast of the village of
Elk Rapids. As an unincorporated community, Kewadin has no legally defined boundaries or population statistics of its own. However, a
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...
operates out of the community, with the
ZIP Code 49648.
History
The Kewadin area was occupied by
indigenous peoples
There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territ ...
until 1876, when a European settlement was established, known as Indian Town. On June 4, 1883, a
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...
opened in the community, and it was renamed to Kewadin, after the
Ojibwe
The Ojibwe (; Ojibwe writing systems#Ojibwe syllabics, syll.: ᐅᒋᐺ; plural: ''Ojibweg'' ᐅᒋᐺᒃ) are an Anishinaabe people whose homeland (''Ojibwewaki'' ᐅᒋᐺᐘᑭ) covers much of the Great Lakes region and the Great Plains, n ...
word ''giiwedin'', meaning 'north'.
References
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Unincorporated communities in Michigan
Unincorporated communities in Antrim County, Michigan
Populated places established in 1883
1883 establishments in Michigan