Locating The Mississippi: Landscape, Nature, And National Territoriality At The Mississippi Headwaters

Geography and the Environmen

Explorers [4th grade]

Students will understand that people explore and settle or different purposes including riches, land, and the spread of religion. Students will also know the history or background of explorers and how that defines the cultures of Texas. At the end of this unit students will independently demonstrate their learning by summarizing an explorer’s accomplishments and reasons for exploring by creating and interacting with a Fakebook page

LAND AND POPULATION ON THE INDIAN RESERVATION OF WISCONSIN: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

The historical relationship between land use and population change among Wisconsin's Indian groups has been strikingly emblematic of the larger American Indian population. The ingredients of this rich relationship include the state's natural resource base, as well as the major engines of demographic change, namely fertility, mortality, and migration. In addition, federal policies have played a critical role in mediating this relationship. These policies have figured prominently since the earliest contact between Europeans and Wisconsin Indians and have continued to exert substantial influence. This paper discusses the past, present, and future relationship between the land and the state's Indian populations, paying particular attention to reservation populations. The reciprocal relationship between land and population among Wisconsin's Indians has evolved in an environment of changing social and political forces. Hence, the paper treats these issues in a chronological manner. It begins by reviewing the early period of contact between Europeans and Indians in the area known today as Wisconsin. Then, it discusses the creation of the state of Wisconsin and various Indian reservations, as well as their implications for Indian populations in the state. Next, it discusses federal land policies of the 19th and 20th centuries, and their effects on Wisconsin reservation populations. Finally, it describes current land tenure issues and the implications of future population growth.Indian reservations -- Government policy -- Wisconsin -- History, Land use -- Wisconsin, Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- Wisconsin, Indians of North America -- Government policy -- Wisconsin, Indians of North America -- Wisconsin -- Government relations -- History, Labor and Human Capital, Land Economics/Use,

Stories of selected explorers for use in fifth grade social studies.

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

Sagamité and Booya: French Influence in Defining Great Lakes Culinary Heritage

As they travelled from the northeastern seaboard across the Great Lakes region, French missionaries and explorers experienced indigenous foodways, particularly a boiled mixture of corn in various states, with similarly varied states offish, meat, or berries. They termed the meal sagamité after an Abenaki term for the dish, but in the Great Lakes region versions like it survive under the term booya especially, possibly derived from French descriptions of the preparation method. This presentation will explore the indigenous foundation for this meal, describe similar contemporary northwestern Great Lakes versions, and suggest the strong influence of the French in naming it. Résumé Au cours de leurs voyages de 1 Atlantique à la région des Grands Lacs, les missionaires et les explorateurs français ont expérimenté les produits alimentaires des autochtones, plus particulièrement un mélange bouilli de maïs sous diverses formes et de poissons, viandes ou baies aussi diVere. Ils ont nommé ce mets sagamité d'après sa désignation abénakise mais quelques variantes du plat subsistent plutôt sous le nom de booya, peut-être dérivé des descriptions françaises de sa préparation, dans la région des Grands Lacs. Cet article se penche sur l'origine autochtone du mets, décrit les versions de la région nord-ouest des Grands Lacs et suggère la forte influence du français sur son appellation

Struggles and Triumphs of Peoples of Color in Michigan

This report consists of a series of essays contributed by historians, academic researchers and community leaders detailing key historical and cultural moments for African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Pacific Islander Americans and Arab Americans in Michigan. The essays are incredibly useful in providing an understanding of the many diverse communities that call Michigan home and should be examined by any and all leaders in the state looking to eradicate racial inequities for Michigan's children