A Shell Above the Waters: An Ojibwa Maritime Cultural Landscape

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This is an abstract from the "Submerged Cultural Resources and the Maritime Heritage of the Great Lakes" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

For the Ojibwa First Nations in the Lake Superior region water was not only a source of life, but it permeated their cosmology, their music, their daily routines, and their very identity as well. This paper reports on research conducted in 2018 that took advantage of interviews, artwork, material culture, and ethnographic reports dating from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.   Understanding the Native maritime cultural landscape sheds a new light on not only past Ojibwa society but on their relationship with later European and American groups who operated within the same environmental variables.  Such an understanding will be valuable for interpreting future archaeological and historical investigations conducted on sites within that region.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2019   •
• Submerged Cultural Resources and the Maritime Heritage of the Great Lakes

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