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1 LAND of the EAGLE (PBS VIDEO on What North America looked like at European contact and Native American lifeways) Episode II – Confronting the Wilderness (the northwoods)

2 ENVIRONMENT SETS SUBSISTENCE (AT EUROPEAN CONTACT ~ 1600) Ojibway/Chippewa Dakota Winnebago Menominee Potawatami, Illinois, Sauk, Fox, Miami

3 THE NORTHEAST CULTURE Ojibway Huron Ottawa Sauk-Fox Dakota Iroquois Europeans Ojibway village (seasonal) – too far north for maize agriculture Iroquois/Huron village (permanent) – maize agriculture With European contact – trade competition and Iroquois destroy Huron and force other tribes (Ottawa and Ojibway) west

4 THE NORTHEAST LIFEWAYS IROQUOIS/HURON OJIBWAY/OTTAWA SLASH/BURN LONGHOUSE/PALISADE FARMINGFISHING WILD RICE WIGWAM BIRCH BARK CANOE

5 Europeans Traded for Pelts, especially beaver (beginning 1600s)

6 The Beaver Market Shapes Politics

7 Europeans Commercially Fished (beginning ~1800)

8 Fishing Technology

9 Getting Fish To Market

10 The Earliest Miners – Native Americans (Copper: 6000 – 3200 years ago)

11 Europeans First Mined Copper and Later Iron (starts in 1840s)

12 Mining Becomes More Sophisticated

13 Europeans Logged (beginning in 1860s)

14 Getting Logs to the Mill

15 The Mills

16 TheLoggers

17 The Logging Legend (Paul Bunyan and Babe)

18 The Aftermath (Devastation, Fire and Chicago)


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