The Indians of the Western Great Lakes, 1615 to 1760

Indians of the Western Great Lakes, 1615–1760 is an ethnographic study of five tribes of the region: Huron, Miami, Ottawa, Potawatomi, and Chippewa. Author W. Vernon Kinietz based this study on a survey of contact-era accounts from archives in Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec, Chicago, Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Washington, DC. Contents Huron Location of the Tribe Characteristics Dress and Ornament Economic Life Social Life Astronomy Religion Miami Introduction Location of the Tribe Characteristics Dress and Ornament Economic Life Social Life Religion Ottawa Historical Sketch Characteristics Dress and Ornament Economic Life Social Life Religion Potawatomi Location of the Tribe Characteristics Dress and Ornament Economic Life Social Life Chippewa Location of the Tribe Characteristics Economic Life Social Life Religion Bibliography Appendix - Memoir Concerning the Different Indian Nations of North America / Antoine Denis Raudot Index