[OR_Archaeology] TAC features French fur-trade fort in Michigan

[Meara Butler]

Friends and colleagues: Engaging the public in an archaeological project
requires some stimulation of the imagination.  As an example, the field
school team at Fort St. Joseph in western Michigan take the public back to
French colonial times in *Making the Past Come Alive: Public Archaeology at
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 an
important link among the remote settlements of New France.  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 until its relocation by the Western Michigan
University field School.  WMU now carries out a very active public
archaeology program at the site.



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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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