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An updated review of post-contact archaeology in the Upper Great Lakes region was long overdue. In this comprehensive reassessment of recent and ongoing developments in the field, Post-Contact Archaeology of Michigan and the Upper Great Lakes Region examines the breadth and diversity of the area’s archaeological sites, highlighting the discoveries that are reshaping our understanding of post-contact archaeology. Gathering case studies that range from terrestrial and underwater cultural sites, to the period of the earliest European settlement to the present day, this volume spotlights how deeply interconnected excavation of the past, and current social justice initiatives are.
“This book is a thorough, up-to-date, and engaging account of Great Lake history” • Robert A. Birmingham, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha
Sarah L. Surface-Evans joined the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) as Senior Archaeologist in 2022 after a decade as a professor of Anthropology at Central Michigan University. Sarah specializes in community-based archaeological practice in the Great Lakes region. Her research and publications have investigated a variety of topics, including material expressions of health and wellbeing, the structure of space as an expression of power in settler-colonial landscapes, and the role of memory, nostalgia, and haunting in contested colonial histories. Her recent publications include “Exploring Well-Being at Three Great Lakes Lighthouses” in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology.
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Introduction: Post-Contact Archaeology of Michigan and the Upper Great Lakes Region
Misty M. Jackson and Sarah L. Surface-Evans
Part 1: Early Colonial Contact
Chapter 1. Rethinking ‘Contact’: Michigan in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Jessica Yann
Chapter 2. Archaeology at Michilimackinac in the Twenty-First Century
Lynn L. M. Evans
Chapter 3. Public Archaeology at Fort St. Joseph, an Eighteenth-Century French Trading Post in Southwest Michigan
Michael S. Nassaney
Part 2: Under the Great Lakes
Chapter 4. Michigan Red Tails! Tuskegee Airmen Archaeology in the Great Lakes
Wayne R. Lusardi
Chapter 5. “Why Did It Happen Here?” Shipwrecks as Evidence of the Transformation of Michigan’s Maritime Landscape
Daniel F. Harrison
Part 3: Resistance and Persistence
Chapter 6. Revisiting Ne-con-ne-pe-wah-se: The Socio-Cultural Significance of Cache Pits
Sean B. Dunham
Chapter 7. Identifying Nineteenth Century Odawa Farms and Settlements within the Cultural Landscape at Waganakising within Emmet County, Michigan
Misty M. Jackson and Wesley L. Andrews
Chapter 8. Remembering through Landscape: Decolonizing the Narrative of a Federal Indian Boarding School
Sarah L. Surface-Evans and Nicholas M. Bacon
Chapter 9. Community-Engaged Archaeology in Red Cliff, Wisconsin
Heather Walder, John L. Creese, Katrina Phillips, and Marvin DeFoe
Chapter 10. Sites of Civil Rights and Resistance: Case Studies from Underground Railroad and African American Settlements in the Great Lakes Region
Amanda J. Campbell Crawford
Chapter 11. Historical Archaeology and the Great Migration: Explorations from Chicago’s Bronzeville Neighborhood
Jane Peterson and Michael M. Gregory
Part 4: Institutions and Industry
Chapter 12. Hot Iron, Cold Winters: Archaeological Contributions to Learning About Life at Fayette
Jessica Yann, Dean Anderson, Stacy Tchorzynski, and Troy Henderson
Chapter 13. Meredith, Johnson Camp, and Garrity Cemetery: Three Forgotten Places in Michigan’s Logging Landscape
Mandy Meyette Kramar and Sarah L. Surface-Evans
Chapter 14. The Archaeology of Children on Michigan State University’s Campus
Jeff Burnett, Stacey Camp, and Autumn Painter
Chapter 15. Historical Archaeology in Detroit: A Retrospective
Krysta Ryzewski
Part 5: Belief and Material Culture
Chapter 16. Where Are the Apotropaic Deposits in Michigan? Shoes, Bottles, and Other Concealments from the Upper and Lower Peninsulas
Misty M. Jackson
Chapter 17. Engagement, Research and Interpretations in the Archaeology of Religious Identity and Practice at the Methodist-Episcopal Parsonage, 1870s-1910s in Four Corners, Troy, Michigan
Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
Chapter 18. Archaeology in New Harmony: Insights into Daily Life within an Intentional Community
Michael Strezewski
Chapter 19. Radicals, Socialists, Fanatics, and Reclusives: Challenges in the Archaeology and History of Intentional Communities
Heather Van Wormer
Concluding Thoughts
Sarah L. Surface-Evans and Misty M. Jackson