Subdivisions of the Ottawa League

While the Ottawa League is characterized as a confederation of city-states at multiple points during the events of 'Merganser,' the League is actually split into fourteen different provinces. Eleven of these provinces are based on places in the real world:


 * 1) Owashtanang - controls Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Holland and Lansing
 * 2) "Ludington"
 * 3) Traverse - controls Grand Traverse Bay and surrounding shores of Lake Michigan, from roughly Charlevoix to Arcadia, as well as the Manitou Islands
 * 4) Mackinac - controls Mackinaw City, Beaver Island, the Fox Islands, the Upper Peninsula from Manistique to west Drummond Island, the Lower Peninsula from Rogers City to Charlevoix
 * 5) Alpena - centered on Alpena, controls areas from Rogers City to Oscoda on Lake Huron
 * 6) Saginaw - centered on Saginaw, controls all of Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron from Oscoda to Harbor Beach, as well as Flint
 * 7) Houghton - only Ottawa League member not to control territory on the Great Lakes themselves
 * 8) Sarnia - controls Lake Huron from Harbor Beach to Stokes Bay (on the Bruce Peninsula). Does not control the St. Clair Delta
 * 9) Detroit - controls the St. Clair Delta and Lake Erie from Monroe to a minuscule portion of Southwest Ontario
 * 10) Erie - controls Lake Erie from Monroe to Lorain, then Southeast Ontario from Kingsville to Port Burwell
 * 11) Manitoulin - controls east Drummond Island to the tip of the Bruce Peninsula. As for the shoreline of Ontario facing Manitoulin Island, it controls the areas from the Mississagi Delta to Philip Edward Island, just west of the French River Delta

The other three subdivisions are:


 * 1) An archipelago
 * 2) A collection of colonies on the west shore of Lake Michigan, in the territories of the Miami-Illinois, Hocak and Menominee
 * 3) A collection of colonies in the traditional territory of other Anishinaabe peoples

As a result, there are two different kinds of subdivisions in the Ottawa League: colonial authorities and federated tribal lands.

In the past, there was not much "regional" or "tribal" pride among the Ottawa living in the twelve tribal lands, but politics have begun to make them see themselves as distinct. The colonial authorities are considered to belong to one specific group of federated tribal lands.

The Menominee-Hocak-Miami-Illinois Colonies are administered by the:


 * Owashtanang
 * Ludington
 * Traverse

The Anishinaabe Colonies are administered by the:


 * Saginaw
 * Alpena

The other seven "tribal lands" are not considered to be