It was a pioneering idea in building housing for Native Americans .
Is a surviving fragment of the assimilationist vision of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft , the U.S. government official supervising Native Americans   affairs and based at Mackinac Island .
It was a pioneering idea in building housing for Native Americans , and is a surviving fragment of the assimilationist vision of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft , the U.S. government official supervising Native American affairs and based at Mackinac Island .