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)
ENVIRONMENT SETS SUBSISTENCE (AT EUROPEAN CONTACT ~ 1600) Ojibway/Chippewa Dakota Winnebago Menominee Potawatami, Illinois, Sauk, Fox, Miami
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
THE NORTHEAST LIFEWAYS IROQUOIS/HURON OJIBWAY/OTTAWA SLASH/BURN LONGHOUSE/PALISADE FARMINGFISHING WILD RICE WIGWAM BIRCH BARK CANOE
Europeans Traded for Pelts, especially beaver (beginning 1600s)
The Beaver Market Shapes Politics
Europeans Commercially Fished (beginning ~1800)
Fishing Technology
Getting Fish To Market
The Earliest Miners – Native Americans (Copper: 6000 – 3200 years ago)
Europeans First Mined Copper and Later Iron (starts in 1840s)
Mining Becomes More Sophisticated
Europeans Logged (beginning in 1860s)
Getting Logs to the Mill
The Mills
TheLoggers
The Logging Legend (Paul Bunyan and Babe)
The Aftermath (Devastation, Fire and Chicago)