Turns out Isabella County, MI is interesting.

TourPods has 8 narrated audio stories about Isabella County — the hidden history, true crime, food legends, and local lore of its streets, told like a podcast about wherever you're standing.

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Former Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School campus

Searching the Ground at Mount Pleasant

At Mount Pleasant, a tribe leads a careful reckoning with boarding school history.

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Isabella Indian Reservation

Where a Treaty Drew the Future

How the Isabella Reservation reveals the human cost of federal treaty policy.

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Isabella County

When the Chippewa Carried Timber

A river remembered as both workplace and passage.

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Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways

Telling the Story From Inside the Community

A tribal museum reshapes who gets to narrate Native history.

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Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways

Where Boarding-School History Becomes Personal

How Ziibiwing turns local memory into a clear account of assimilation’s human cost.

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Mt. Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School

What the Mount Pleasant School Still Holds

A boarding school site that preserves the human cost of forced assimilation.

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Chippewa River

Why the Water Drew People In

A river story about movement, food, and settlement in Isabella County.

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Mt. Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School

When the Doors Opened in Mount Pleasant

A school opened to educate Native children by separating them from home.

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