[OR_Archaeology] TAC features French fur-trading fort in Michigan (Part 1)

[Meara Butler]

Friends and colleagues: The early history of the North American colonial
frontier takes on more meaning when archaeologists recover direct evidence
left behind at key sites.  The search for such evidence can be very trying
and may require both persistence and endurance, as demonstrated by *In
Search of Fort St. Joseph*, the latest video feature on our nonprofit
streaming-media Web site, *The Archaeology Channel* (
http://www.archaeologychannel.org).



Fort St. Joseph, begun as a French Jesuit mission in the 1680s, was one of
the earliest European settlements in the western Great Lakes and, as an
important link among the remote settlements of New France, facilitated the
fur trade with Native peoples.  For almost 80 years, French priests,
enlisted men, and traders lived here closely with the native Potowatomi and
Miami.  After 1781, the fort eventually eroded away and its location was
forgotten.  This film, the first of our two-part series on Fort St. Joseph,
describes the search for the fort by the 2002 Western Michigan
Universitysummer field school.



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Richard M. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA
President and Executive Director
Archaeological Legacy Institute
http://www.archaeologychannel.org



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 Meara Butler

Archaeological Legacy Institute List Serve Coordinator
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