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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 419–420.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Cary Miller Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750–1860 . By Murphy Lucy Eldersveld . ( New York : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . xvi + 313 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, index . $32.99 paper...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (2): 320–321.
Published: 01 April 2009
... an important counterpoint to Morgan’s.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-066
Restoring the Chain of Friendship: British Policy and the Indians of the
Great Lakes, 1783–1815. By Timothy D. Willig. (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 2008. xvi + 376 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illus...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 488–489.
Published: 01 July 2010
... into frequent land surrenders in
present western Ontario and around the Great Lakes, often giving the bands
little but unkept promises in return. With Confederation in 1867, Canadian
officials came to regard First Nations people as impediments to expansion,
so during the 1870s they negotiated...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 490–491.
Published: 01 July 2010
... into frequent land surrenders in
present western Ontario and around the Great Lakes, often giving the bands
little but unkept promises in return. With Confederation in 1867, Canadian
officials came to regard First Nations people as impediments to expansion,
so during the 1870s they negotiated...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (4): 535–536.
Published: 01 October 2017
... the geopolitical landscape of North America” (273). In noting Indian dominance in the Great Lakes, McDonnell builds—as his footnotes attest—on a growing literature that highlights Native power throughout early America. Toward the beginning of Masters of Empire , Michael A. McDonnell states, “We cannot...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (1): 37–63.
Published: 01 January 2011
..., in the absence of extensive documentation on historical self-ascriptions, contemporary ethnohistorians examining upper Great Lakes fur trade settlements have attempted to come to terms with the historical social ontologies that long preceded official attempts to regulate them. Specifically, we examine...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 769–770.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Thomas J. Lappas Contested Territories: Native Americans and Non-Natives in the Lower Great Lakes, 1700–1850. Edited by Beatty-Medina Charles and Rinehart Melissa . ( East Lansing : Michigan State University Press , 2012 . xxxii + 246 pp., acknowledgments, introduction...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 148–149.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Melissa Rinehart Winning the West with Words: Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes . By Buss James J. . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2011 . v + 328 pp., illustrations, introduction, epilogue, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, acknowledgments . $34.95...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 149–151.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Brad D. E. Jarvis Faith in Paper: The Ethnohistory and Litigation of Upper Great Lakes Indian Treaties . By Cleland Charles E. with Greene Bruce R. , Slonim Marc , Cleland Nancy N. , Tierney Kathryn L. , Durocher Skip , and Pierson Brian . ( Ann Arbor...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (2): 408–411.
Published: 01 April 2002
... work that should inspire similar studies of the protohistoric Ameri-
can South.
A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Métis, and Mining in the Western Great
Lakes, 1737–1832. By Lucy Eldersveld Murphy. (Lincoln: University...
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in Change Amid Continuity, Innovation within Tradition: Wampum Diplomacy at the Treaty of Greenville, 1795
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 April 2017
Figure 1. Map of Great Lakes region showing key locations and events. Courtesy of US Army Center of Military History
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (4): 639–668.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Michael Witgen This article examines the social construction of space and identity in the Great Lakes and the western interior of North America. Through analysis of documentary evidence it contrasts the discursive practices of the French empire, which established claims of discovery and possession...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 143–166.
Published: 01 January 2016
... of indigenous Catholicism and Catholic kinship networks that bound eighteenth-century trading communities across the Great Lakes region. Those networks—strong, widespread, and highly important—were also thin: their spiritual practices and faith commitments did not in the 1760s deeply penetrate most Great Lakes...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 April 2013
... on the other. Ultimately, the relationship and the conflict it caused in 1738 tell us much about the Great Lakes Region and about colonialism more generally. Although the pressures of colonialism had battered the natives, they had not shattered them. Instead, the Hurons, Odawas, and their native neighbors...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 595–619.
Published: 01 October 2016
... colonial power rapidly eroded the “middle ground” across the lower Great Lakes and political disputes factionalized the Shawnees, putting new pressures on how people constructed and forgot the past. Copyright 2016 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2016 Atlantic world storytelling Native...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 423–452.
Published: 01 April 2000
...Susan Sleeper-Smith This article focuses on four Native women who were Christian converts and married French fur traders. As “cultural mediators” and“negotiators of change” they mediated the face-to-face exchange of goods for peltry in the western Great Lakes through Catholic kin networks...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 11–33.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Heidi Bohaker Anishinaabe peoples of the Great Lakes region consistently signed treaties, petitions, and other paper documents from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries with pictographic representations of their nindoodem (clan) identities. Close study of these pictographs reveals...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 349–371.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Susan Sleeper-Smith Abstract In the eighteenth-century western Great Lakes, the French and British established forts to guard a highly profitable fur trade. Places like Fort Michilimackinac became synonymous with the fur trade. In warmer regions an equally profitable Indian-controlled fur trade...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 75–99.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Amélie Allard Abstract Drawing from archaeological data collected from Réaume’s Leaf River Post (Minnesota) and fur traders’ journals, this article considers the ways in which mobility impacted the performance of masculine ideals within the colonial spaces of the western Great Lakes trading posts...
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in Gendered Mobilities: Performing Masculinities in the Late Eighteenth-Century Mobile Fur Trade Community
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 1. Map showing the location of Réaume’s Leaf River Post (star) and Michilimackinac (circle), as well as the major riverways of the western Great Lakes region
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