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Some notes on mapping indigenous peoples in Wisconsin
(reposted from my tumblr account with minor format adjustments) I’ve been doing some heavy-duty learning about indigenous history in the Great Lakes from 1600-1800 lately, and in the process I’ve...
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Borders and the Métis Nation
History of the Métis Homeland Quick refresher: The Métis are a group of people who are descended from primarily French-Canadian, Scottish, and English fur traders who married mostly Cree and Ojibwe...
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Recognizing Hopewell and Cultural Continuity
I saw a post of a Hopewell pipe a few days ago and it got me thinking about Hopewell. For the unfamiliar, Hopewell is the name for the general cultural tradition and exchange network that spread across...
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No Princess Zone: Hanging Cloud, the Ogichidaakwe
Reblogged from Chequamegon History : Here is an interesting story I've run across a few times. Don't consider this exhaustive research on the subject, but it's something I thought was worth putting...
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An Outline of Kaskaskia History
This blog post was written for tumblr user howoddnichole, who requested some information about Kaskaskia history. Most of the information comes from Richard White’s The Middle Ground, Wayne C. Temple’s...
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The indigenous women miners of the Driftless Area
Lead mining and the lead rush of the 1820s is a huge part of the cultural narrative of white settlement in southeastern Wisconsin and the nearby parts of Minnesota, Illinois, and Iowa known as the...
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Three technologies people think pre-contact Native Americans didn’t have...
1. Writing By this point in time, it’s fairly well-accepted and fairly well-known that Mesoamerican peoples used writing systems, the most famous being Classic Maya writing. Mesoamerica is one of the...
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The history of Anishinaabe historians
In my first years of college, I took a class that focused on the intellectual heritage of the Western world. And as I read those works, I started wondering, what history is there of indigenous...
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Inspired by many other public syllabuses such as the #FergusonSyllabus, #CharlestonSyllabus, #StandingRockSyllabus, and others, I decided to create a “syllabus” (more like a generic reading list) of...
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