The Oxbow Archeological District, on the grounds of the Chippewa Nature Center near Midland, Michigan, preserves a long record of life along the Chippewa River from the Archaic and Woodland periods into the early nineteenth century. Its sites include single-component and multicomponent occupations that document prehistoric use, Chippewa habitation, and early settler presence within one landscape. Among them are the Naugle, Sumac Bluff, Sias East, Cater, 20MD534, and Ponton sites, which together show repeated settlement over many centuries. First unearthed in the 1930s and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, the district is also associated with a battle between the Ojibwe and the Sauk.