Thirty years ago. 2 Miami High School students accompanied me to Rhode Island to the National Service-Learning Conference. Students had been involved with Service-Learning since the day Nancy Scott with Cherokee Nation had brought the concept and funding for the work they would do a couple of years earlier. For over ten years students were involved either directly with the Cherokee Volunteer Society (open to all) or in their classrooms applying what they were learning as they also learned the..

These are our people now; their relatives may live next door to you. The woodland tribes who reside in Ottawa County: the Eastern Shawnee, the Shawnee, the Ottawa, the Peoria, the Miami, the Seneca, the Wyandotte.

A beaver is yes, a rodent but they are also ecosystem engineers who can shape wetlands and create biodiversity.