The European Experience

The following videos provide an overview of the European experience. More detailed textual descriptions of the Europeans' experiences with Native Americans during the early contact period in the Great Lakes region will be provided in the future.

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These videos were made possible through a generous grant from the Illinois Humanities Council.

• Pays d'en Haut: The Upper Country, by Susan Sleeper-Smith, Ph.D., Michigan State University.
• The Fur Trade - Part 1, by Susan Sleeper-Smith, Ph.D., Michigan State University.
• The Fur Trade - Part 2, by Susan Sleeper-Smith, Ph.D., Michigan State University.
• The Fur Trade - Part 3, by Susan Sleeper-Smith, Ph.D., Michigan State University.
• Marquette and the Jesuits, by Susan Sleeper-Smith, Ph.D., Michigan State University.
• The Journeys of LaSalle, by Susan Sleeper-Smith, Ph.D., Michigan State University.
• The Jesuit Relations, by Susan Sleeper-Smith, Ph.D., Michigan State University.
• New France and the Economics of the Fur Trade, by Susan Sleeper-Smith, Ph.D., Michigan State University.
• Settlement of the Northwest Territory, by James Lewis, Ph.D., Independent Scholar.