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While you are looking for this cache make sure to stop and take a look at the bronze Native American statues towering above the beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline. There is also an awesome overlook of the lake and a great hiking and biking trail running 6 miles along the lake shoreline.
American Indians made up 80 percent of the human occupation of the county, said historian Kerry Trask, also a member of the board. "People were here 8,000 years ago," he said.
"They had been depending on the waters, the aquatic life, the rice and they'd been building watercraft out of bark. The canoe has a history, too. It's a refined piece of technology," he said. "The birch-bark canoe is to Indians what the horse is to Western culture." The sculpture depicts an important piece of Manitowoc County history as an "antecedent for our marine tradition," Wallen said.
The sculpture has broader meaning beyond the area's maritime heritage, he said.
"It's an allegory for life's journey," Wallen said. "The tribal elder is on shore to welcome these people. He's not only showing them where they can set the canoe down. In an allegorical sense, he knows where the tribe has been and where it should be heading." The spot is where, historically, Native Americans would have brought their canoes to shore.
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