Few countries in the world can boast a life span as rich or diverse as Scotland. The true story of the people, the battles, the nobility and its Kings and Queens, is more thrilling than any novel, and has more love stories than all the Hollywood movies. Scotland's clans provide Scots everywhere with a point of reference for their identity, history and culture.

The term clan is now applied almost exclusively to the tribes into which the Scottish Highlanders were formerly, and still, to some extent, are divided. The term was also applied to those large and powerful septs into which the Irish people were at one time divided, as well as to the communities that inhabited the Scottish borders, each of which, like the Highland clans, had a common surname. Indeed, in an Act of the Scottish Parliament for 1587, the Highlanders and Borderers are classed together as being alike "dependents on chieftains or captains of clans."

 

The border clans, however, were, at a comparatively early period, broken up and weaned from their predatory and warlike habits, whereas the system of clanship in the Highlands continued to flourish in almost full vigor down to the middle of the 18th century.

 

As there is so much of romance surrounding the system, especially in its later manifestations, and as it was the cause of much annoyance to England, it has become a subject of interest to antiquarians and students of mankind generally; and as it flourished so far into the historical period, curiosity can, to a great extent, be gratified as to its details and working.

Clan Baird
Clan Buchanan (theclanbuchanan.com)
Clan Campbell (ccsna.org)
Clan Donald Michigan
Clan Donald USA
Clan Dunlap
Clan Elliott (elliotclanusa.com)
House of Gordon
Clan Gregor (ClanGregor.org)
Clan Gunn
Clan Hay (ClanHay.com)
Clan Irwin
Clan MacCallum/Malcom (clan-maccallum-malcolm.3acres.org)
Clan MacDougall (macdougall.org)
Clan MacInnes (MacInnes.org)
Clan MacIntosh

Stay tuned for an update list of participating 2013 Clans and Societies.

Clan Registration Form Registration Form
Saturday, August 3, 2013

Payment Options:

1. Mail completed Registration Form with your check or money order (U.S. funds only)
Payable to "Annual Highland Games" to:

St. Andrew's Society of Detroit Annual Highland Games
c/o Willian Fromm
3069 Covey Hill Dr.
Oxford, MI. 48371
Phone: (248) 202-9147

2. Mail completed Registration Form or Make a secure payment to: HighlandGamesChair@detroitscots.com at:

PAY PAL

Clan Tents and Sites

Two entry tickets, tent, table & two chairs $60.00 USD Additional Table - ea. $10.00 USD Additional Chairs - ea. $1.00 USD

Contact William Fromm
clans@detroitscots.com