No Grants, No Travel, No Excuses: Researching and Writing Early

No Grants, No Travel, No Excuses: Researching and Writing Early North American History in the Digital Age
José António Brandão
Western Michigan University
Technical Assistance: Joshua P. Schier
Iroquois Homelands, circa 17th Century
17th‐18th Century Native Artifacts
1697 Map of Eastern North America attributed to Louvigny
1697 Map of Eastern North America attributed to Louvigny
Detail of 1755 Bellin Map of New France
Official reports and memoirs offer European
insights of Native culture
Dated November 13, 1681
French‐Iroquois Treaty of 1701
In treaties we hear the actual Native voice and can even see Native “signatures.” Here we see clan symbols Natives used to identify themselves.
The French Michilimackinac Research Project Collection at Western Michigan University
Location of Fort St. Joseph
and surrounding forts.
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Ft. St. Joseph, Niles, MI
Vertical Magnetic Gradient
G-858 Mag.; Western Mich. Univ.
Composite to 7 July 2004
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nT/m
Meters North
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Explanation
Shoreline
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Excavation Unit
Steel Grid Marker
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Meters East
FSJ Cilice
Lacrosse Sticks
Iroquois Wampum Belts
Document Collections on CD
Library and Archives of
Canada, Series C11A,
available online.
Frederick W. Waugh’s Ojibwa Journals
Discussion Networks
http://www.h-net.org/~amind/
Thomas Fisher
Rare Book Room,
University of Toronto