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 is a photo in front of a house with a large Catalpa tree. There appear to be four men, two of who may be the partners of two of the three women. Two girls are also in the picture. The backside has names, of which Ophelia Fields is the most…
Fifteen children in robes, six in mortarboards stand outside a clapboard structure with an A.M.E Church plaque behind them. There is a very distinctive three-story in the background. Nothing is on the back.
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…
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…