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...
View ArticleBorders 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...
View ArticlePre-Columbian contact that probably happened
Pre-Columbian American history is one of my biggest areas of interest. And one of the things I’ve learned over the course of studying it is that unlike in European history, where “theory unsupported by...
View ArticleRecognizing 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...
View ArticleThe 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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