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This ethnohistorical work examines the process of Ottawa adaptation
from a world system perspective. Following the lead of Richard White,
Carol Smith, James Scott, and Sherry Ortner it analyzes the Ottawa mode
of production as a key mechanism by…

The purpose of this thesis is to develop ideas for how land managers at Sleeping
Bear Dunes National Lakeshore might integrate cultural resource and wilderness
management practices to convey both the cultural landscape and wilderness values of…

This project builds upon three previous studies of historic agriculture at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (SBDNL). These have focused on: (1) an overview of the agricultural and settlement history of the two-county SBDNL region; (2) an…

This report presents an overview of the agricultural evolution of two adjacent counties, Benzie and Leelanau, located in the northwestern corner of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Encompassing a large portion of the Lake Michigan coastline of both…

his study is the second in a series for Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. It utilizes a number of approaches and sources--including such primary materials as manuscript schedules for the federal population and agricultural censuses, pre-emption…

What follows is a discussion of the establishment of Port Oneida,
the people who settled there, and an accounting of historical
events garnered through library research and interviews with
local citizens. At the end of this special history…

The historiography of school gardening in the United States has few contributions. The works that exist draw heavily from official documents and other primary sources which tell the story from an institutional point of view and are mainly outside the…