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  • 1968 "The Fredrick S. Perkins Collection," reprinted from the twenty-second annual report 1876 of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Archaeologist Vol.43 No.3 pp.127-133
• Binford, Lewis R.
  • 1962 "Radiometric Analysis of Bone Material from the Oconto Site" The Wisconsin Archaeologist, Vol.

Cosmic Curiosities

“Never have I beheld any spectacle which…so forcibly taught the lesson of humility to man as a total eclipse of the Sun.”
~ James Fennimore Cooper, 19th century American writer

Last Thoughts before the Big American Eclipse

Located in the Future Museum’s outdoor Plaza will be an Indigenous art installation titled The Gathering Place, designed and created by artist Mark Fischer of the Oneida Nation.

The Great Lakes is a chain of inland lakes – Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, and Lake Superior – stretching from New York to Minnesota.

Because they comprise such a large waterway, they have played a vital role in the lives and histories of Indian peoples who have resided along their shores for millennia. Most Indian groups living in the Great Lakes region for the last five centuries are of the Algonkian language family.

For Indian tribes in the United States, sovereignty and treaty rights are key issues involving historic and modern-day relations between tribes -- as nations with the ability to govern themselves -- and the federal government of the United States.

Both sovereignty and treaty rights rely on the historic recognition that Native American tribes possessed the lands they lived on when Whites came to this