Paul Mickey Science Series Lecture . Please Note --> This is a Past Event!! .
Date:
11/11/2009 Time:
7:00 PM TO 8:30 PM
Event Description: The Illinois State Museum monthly lecture will be held on November 11, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. at the Museum's Research and Collections Center. Eric Drake, Hiawatha National Forest, Michigan will present "Working to Stay Together in "Forsaken Out of the Way Places": Investigating Early 20th Century Indian Logging Camps in Michigan's Upper Peninsula." This event is free and open to the public.
Efforts by the Federal government to assimilate American Indians into mainstream American society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries disrupted traditional family and community life through programs such as boarding schools and the land allotment system. In response, many Indians devised innovative ways to assure the social, cultural, and economic survival of their households and communities. Recent archaeological investigations of two Anishinaabe logging camps in Michigan's Upper Peninsula suggest how members of one Indian community took advantage of structural characteristics of the logging industry to form a strategy on how to resist assimilation.
Discover Illinois' rich prehistoric and historic past by attending a Paul Mickey Science program. A different speaker and topic are featured each month. For more information on upcoming topics and speakers, please contact Nina Walthall at 217-782-0061.
Directions: Access to the Research and Collections Center is from 10 1/2 Street (between Ash and Laurel Streets), where there is ample visitor parking in the west parking lot. The building is accessible to individuals with disabilities.
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