The Detroit area much like many other places is built on a first nation site. Detroit was French the name means "strait" in english. That made Detroit a safe place to land boats and was protected from storms on the great lakes. It was also praire making it a place where animals gqthered to feed and people could farm.

The various clans pf first nation people were all a part of the Ojibway nation. Evidence of their existance has been found as old a 4,500 years ago. The along came the europeans and within a hundred years the land was denuded of trees the soil was depleted and the animals were extinct.

Let me ask you this. Which one was the savage?

 hhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojibwettp://www.ojibway.ca/history.htm

This article by the Ojibway Nature Center is a time line of the area.

http://heritage-key.com/blogs/owenjarus/oldest-house-ontario-discovered-4500-year-old-settlement-near-lake-huron-canada

Now about the only thing we can say about Detroit is that it is the only place in America that is North of Canada. That and the chinese pheasants that were planted here after the ring necks were hunted out of existance are finding a foor hold in the torn down areas of the city.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojibwe

I had to learn some of those names when we had a summer place in Canada. Too bad the outboard motors killed the river leaking oil and gas all over.