A industries. The city of detroit itself was founded by the french in 1701. Detroit is a french name. It represents the straight of water being the Detroit River. It separates the United States from canada now. When at that time, it was one region of land that was inhabited by the various native american people. This is a representation of what it may have looked like around 1701 when the french settled this area. Theres a long history that took place before this. Human habitation began in this area as far back as 2000 years ago with the cultures that we sometimes refer to as Mount Builders that came out of the Mississippi River area. They came up to this region and left us these large burial mounds. At one point, there was six of them at least in the city. Now there is only one that remains on the grounds of historic fort wayne down at the Detroit River. Several of the tribes that were living here wouldve been the chippewa, the pottawatomie, the ottawa, the hereon. These people lived