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Leelanau County ( ) is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population was 21,708.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/26/26089.html )〕 The county seat was until recently the unincorporated community of Leland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 On August 3, 2004, county voters approved a proposal to move the county seat to Suttons Bay Township, closer to the county's geographic center. In 2008, the county offices completed their move to a new government center〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='Nutcracker' performances set - www.leelanaunews.com - Leelanau Enterprise )〕 built on 45 acres (180,000 m²) of county-owned land, one mile east of the unincorporated village of Lake Leelanau, where a new county law enforcement center was completed. Leelanau County is included in the Traverse City, MI Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is located in Northern Michigan. In 2011, the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, located in the county, won the title of "Most Beautiful Place in America" in a poll by morning news show Good Morning America. ==History== The county was set off in 1840, and organized in 1863.〔 The county's name is said to be a Native American word meaning "delight of life",〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University )〕 but it is a neologism made up by Indian agent and ethnographer Henry Schoolcraft, who sometimes gave the name "Leelinau" to Native American women in his tales. He created many ''faux'' Indian place names in Michigan, from syllables from Ojibwe, Latin and Arabic. This source contends that the Ojibwas did not use the letter "L".〔(Michigan Arts and History on Origins of County Names. )〕 ''See,'' List of Michigan county name etymologies. More recently, however, scholars have established that ''Leelinau'' was first used as a pen name by Henry's wife, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, in writings for ''The Literary Voyager'', a family magazine which they wrote together in the 1820s.〔(Jeremy Mumford, "Mixed-race identity in a nineteenth-century family: the Schoolcrafts of Sault Ste. Marie, 1824-27" ), ''Michigan Historical Review'', 22 March 1999, pp.3-4, accessed 11 December 2008〕 Jane Johnston was of Ojibwa and Scots-Irish descent, and wrote in Ojibwe and English. While her writing was not published formally in her lifetime (except as Schoolcraft appropriated it under his own name), Jane Johnston Schoolcraft has been recognized as "the first Native American literary writer, the first known Indian woman writer, the first known Indian poet, the first known poet to write poems in a Native American language, and the first known American Indian to write out traditional Indian stories."〔(Robert Dale Parker, ''Jane Johnston Schoolcraft'' ), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, accessed 11 December 2008〕 In 2008 Jane Johnston Schoolcraft was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leelanau County, Michigan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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