The Indians of the Western Great Lakes, 1615 to 1760 PDF
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THE INDIANS OF THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES I615-1760 FRENCH POSTS OF THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES MAP I OCCASIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN No. 10 THE INDIANS OF THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES 1615-1760 BY W. VERNON KINIETZ ANN ARBOR UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS 1940 © 1940 by the Regents of the University of Michigan The Museum of Anthropology All rights reserved ISBN (print): 978-1-949098-54-9 ISBN (ebook): 978-1-951538-53-8 Browse all of our books at sites.lsa.umich.edu/archaeology-books. Order our books from the University of Michigan Press at www.press.umich.edu. For permissions, questions, or manuscript queries, contact Museum publications by email at umma- [email protected] or visit the Museum website at lsa.umich.edu/ummaa. PREFACE A SURVEY of documents relating to the Indians of Michigan and the Great Lakes region during the contact period was made in 1935-36 in the archives of Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec, Chicago, Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Wash ington, D.C. Several hundred volumes of manuscripts, transcripts, and photostats of manuscripts were examined in the various archives. The present study is the outgrowth of that survey. To the manuscript material gathered has been added the published material of the same period. It was the purpose of this project to compile synthetic ethnographies of various tribes from the historic background so assembled. In pursuing this objective it was necessary to set beginning and closing dates. The beginning date was determined by the first explorers, whose first contact with a Michigan tribe, between the Ottawa and Champlain, was on the eastern or northern shore of Georgian Bay in I 6 I 5. Aside from the so, Huron, who did not come to Michigan until after I 6 the number of contacts between Michigan tribes and Europeans was negligible until after I 66o. The period of Indian-white contact west of Lake Huron may then be said to begin about r66o. The selection of a closing date had to be made rather arbitrarily, but it was felt that there were ample reasons for choosing 1760, the date of the capitulation of Canada by the French. For seven years before the fall of Canada the strug gle with the British kept the French so occupied that the records of the times are practically devoid of comments of ethnographic significance. Hence the contact period as de termined here was of less than a hundred years in duration. In this period the political control of this region remained in the hands of the French, and most of the accounts of the various tribes were written by Frenchmen. The question of language and the consequent translation was another reason for limiting the period to the French regime. The French VI!
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