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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…

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…

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 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…

This dissertation seeks to establish the nature of the relationship between the
French and the Ottawa Nation of northern Lake Huron in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. The enquiry is pursued through the study of the Lake Huron…