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DOCUMENT Full-Text Erwin N. Thompson.

This report on Grand Portage National Monument is in effect a basic data study, although the criteria for such was developed after the report was in progress. The study has been prepared in accordance with Historical Resource Study Proposal, Grand Portage-H-lc, "Grand Portage: A History of French, British , and United States Usage, ca. 1660- 1842."

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jay Sturdevant. William Clayton.

As co-signatories on the 1854 Treaty of LaPointe, the Grand Portage Band was placed on a reservation within their traditional homeland where they continued to maintain a tribal identify directly tied to Grand Portage Bay on Lake Superior. During the reservation era, the Grand Portage Band lived within a changing cultural landscape created out of the multi-cultural milieu that had existed since the arrival of the French in the 1660s. This paper explores cultural landscape aspects of mobility and...