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Mission Point is located on the southeast side of Mackinac Island, Michigan. It is approximately 21 acres in size〔Marian McBride, () “New Idea in Old Setting”, ‘‘Milwaukee Sentinel’’, pp 3 & 6, 1966-10-5. Retrieved 2014-02-04.〕 between Robinson’s Folly and the jetty terminating near Franks Street. The Island has a history of documented European development beginning with French Jesuit missionaries landing at the point in 1634, less than two decades after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock on the East Coast of North America.〔''The Jesuit Relations,'' Vol. XXIII, 1642 () “(4) CHAPTER FIRST” p. 275 - p. 277. Nicolet's 900-mile trip from Quebec to Green Bay. Retrieved 2014-02-04.〕 Since that time, development at Mission Point has included a Mission House, summer house, several summer Victorian cottages, conference center for an international group, theater, film studio, college campus, and vacation resort. Mission Point looks out toward Round Island (Michigan) over the Straits of Mackinac, the principal waterway between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. In the early 21st century, Mission Point has been developed as Mission Point Resort, a full-service facility including guest lodging, three restaurants, putting greens, a museum, and a theater.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.missionpoint.com/ )〕 == Prehistory of Mackinac Island == For millennia before the arrival of Europeans, Mackinac Island was home and meeting place for Chippewa (Anishinaabeg), Huron, Menominee, Potawatomi, Ojibwe, Ottawa, and other Native American Indian tribes. They enjoyed aurora borealis displays, pure fresh water, ice-locked winters, quiet snow storms, spring trees and birds, pleasant summers, and autumn leaves. These were described in a reminiscence by an Indian chief: “Great Spirit allowed a peaceful stillness to dwell around thee, when only light and balmy winds were permitted to pass over thee, hardly ruffling the mirror surface of the waters that surrounded thee; or to hear by evening twilight, the sound of the Giant Fairies as they, with rapid step and giddy whirl, dance their mystic dance on thy limestone battlements. Nothing then disturbed thy quiet and deep solitude but the chippering of birds and the rustling of the leaves of the silver-barked birch.”〔Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians, History & Culture () Retrieved 2014-02-04.〕〔Michigan Genealogy on the Web, USGenWeb Project (MIGenWeb); ''History of Cheboygan and Mackinac Counties,'' G. Robinson and R. A. Sprague, 1873. () Retrieved 2014-02-04.〕 Jean Nicolet and Father Barthélemy Vimont were the first Europeans known to pass through the Straits of Mackinac (1634–1635). They were guided there by a small group of Huron Indians 14 years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. Other French colonists had settled in eastern Quebec. In 1642, Fr. Vimont documented the trip in ‘The Jesuit Relations’ (''Relations des Jésuites de la Nouvelle-France'').〔 Near Mackinac Island, Nicolet and his companions encountered members of the peaceful Ho-Chunk Nation (Winnebago Tribe).〔Frank Straus, (“Jean Nicolet Was Little Known Explorer of Upper Great Lakes” ), ‘‘Mackinac Island Town Crier’’, 2007-06-30. Retrieved 2014-02-04.〕 Jesuit fathers Charles Dablon and Jacques Marquette founded Catholic missions on Mackinac Island, St. Ignace, and Mackinaw City. Fr. Dablon built a birchbark chapel on Mackinac Island in 1670. In 1671 Fr. Jacques Marquette moved the mission to St. Ignace on the Upper Peninsula. Thereafter it was transferred to Mackinaw City. The British took it over in 1763, after defeating the French in the Seven Years' War - their government ceded their territories in North America east of the Mississippi River to the British. Finally, in 1780 the mission was relocated to Mackinac Island, where the British had purchased property from the Indians for £5,000. Fort Mackinac was also moved from the mainland to the Island, and Major Sinclair became its first commander. That winter the associated town residents relocated to the Island, becoming the first permanent "white" settlement on Mackinac Island.〔(Dwight H. Kelton (1883). "Early Officers At The Fort Michilimackinac and Mackinac" ), GenWeb, Retrieved 2014-02-04.〕〔Frank Straus, (“Jesuit Ties to Mackinac Island Now More Than 3 Centuries Old, Jesuit Missionaries A Look at History” ), ‘‘Mackinac Island Town Crier’’, 2005-05-27. Retrieved 2014-02-04.〕 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「Mission Point (Mackinac Island)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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