Identifying Nineteenth Century Odawa Farms and Settlements within the Cultural Landscape at Waganakising in Emmet County, Michigan.

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Research, Interpretation, and Engagement in Post-Contact Archaeology of the Great Lakes Region" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

American styled farming practiced by the Odawak during the nineteenth century had evolved as part of a process beginning in the seventeenth. This transition is examined within a framework of a cultural landscape study of the Waganakising Odawak that seeks to place them, their history and their accommodations to Americans into focus for the purpose of understanding their cultural sites.

We propose a model where farmsteads are not always the same as home sites. Villages are homes along the coast of Lake Michigan in winter and movement back and forth from homes to farmstead occurs during the warmer months. These land use patterns allow for maintaining access to a wide range of natural resources many of which are aboriginal in origin.

Several nineteenth century Odawa farms and homestead sites serve as examples that require further archaeological research to determine what archaeological features distinguish Odawa homestead sites from Euro-Americans.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Research, Interpretation, and Engagement in Post-Contact Archaeology of the Great Lakes Region   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

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