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Research and Consultation in the Upper Midwest
Cultural Resource
Studies
1996-2006
This decade-long endeavor, sponsored by the National Park Service's Midwest Region, began in 1966, when M. N. Zedeno undertook a regional overview of historic and ethnographic information on the subject of Ojibwa land and resource use in the Western Great Lakes and Interior Lakes Regions. The following year, R. Stoffle led an ethnographic team in field surveys of four national parks: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, in Wisconsin, and Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota. Stoffle's team joined with Ojibway representatives of eight American Indian tribes and three Canadian First Nations to identify ethnographic resources and to investigate traditional resource use within the parks. This was the first BARA project to systematically incorporate a landscape approach into ethnographic surveys.
Following the completion of this project, a cultural affiliation and ethnographic resource inventory of St. Croix National Scenic Riverway was undertaken with the participation of Ojibway as well as Dakota Sioux tribes from Wisconsin and Minnesota. In 2001 Zedeno completed the first phase of the river corridor study. A new phase of research is underway and specifically seeks to gather information from for the National Park Service's Ethnographic Resource Inventory.
Yet another ongoing project in this region is a cultural affiliation statement for Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio. The traditional land use history of this park is connected to landscape of river corridors and the great lakes. Because of its centrality in a network of riverways used by hunter as well as farmer tribal groups, the park has a complex history involving Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking groups.
BARA Researchers:
M. N. Zedeno
R. Stoffle
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