Post-Contact Archaeology of Michigan and the Upper Great Lakes Region

Sarah L. Surface-Evans joined the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) as Senior Archaeologist in 2022 after a decade as a professor of Anthropology at Central Michigan University. Sarah specializes in community-based archaeological practice in the Great Lakes region. Her research and publications have investigated a variety of topics, including material expressions of health and wellbeing, the structure of space as an expression of power in settler-colonial landscapes, and the role of memory, nostalgia, and haunting in contested colonial histories. Her recent publications include “Exploring Well-Being at Three Great Lakes Lighthouses” in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Post-Contact Archaeology of Michigan and the Upper Great Lakes RegionMisty M. Jackson and Sarah L. Surface-EvansPart 1: Early Colonial ContactChapter 1. Rethinking ‘Contact’: Michigan in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesJessica YannChapter 2. Archaeology at Michilimackinac in the Twenty-First CenturyLynn L. M. EvansChapter 3. Public Archaeology at Fort St. Joseph, an Eighteenth-Century French Trading Post in Southwest MichiganMichael S. NassaneyPart 2: Under the Great LakesChapter 4. Michigan Red Tails! Tuskegee Airmen Archaeology in the Great LakesWayne R. LusardiChapter 5. “Why Did It Happen Here?” Shipwrecks as Evidence of the Transformation of Michigan’s Maritime LandscapeDaniel F. HarrisonPart 3: Resistance and PersistenceChapter 6. Revisiting Ne-con-ne-pe-wah-se: The Socio-Cultural Significance of Cache PitsSean B. DunhamChapter 7. Identifying Nineteenth Century Odawa Farms and Settlements within the Cultural Landscape at Waganakising within Emmet County, MichiganMisty M. Jackson and Wesley L. AndrewsChapter 8. Remembering through Landscape: Decolonizing the Narrative of a Federal Indian Boarding SchoolSarah L. Surface-Evans and Nicholas M. BaconChapter 9. Community-Engaged Archaeology in Red Cliff, WisconsinHeather Walder, John L. Creese, Katrina Phillips, and Marvin DeFoeChapter 10. Sites of Civil Rights and Resistance: Case Studies from Underground Railroad and African American Settlements in the Great Lakes RegionAmanda J. Campbell CrawfordChapter 11. Historical Archaeology and the Great Migration: Explorations from Chicago’s Bronzeville NeighborhoodJane Peterson and Michael M. GregoryPart 4: Institutions and IndustryChapter 12. Hot Iron, Cold Winters: Archaeological Contributions to Learning About Life at FayetteJessica Yann, Dean Anderson, Stacy Tchorzynski, and Troy HendersonChapter 13. Meredith, Johnson Camp, and Garrity Cemetery: Three Forgotten Places in Michigan’s Logging LandscapeMandy Meyette Kramar and Sarah L. Surface-EvansChapter 14. The Archaeology of Children on Michigan State University’s CampusJeff Burnett, Stacey Camp, and Autumn PainterChapter 15. Historical Archaeology in Detroit: A RetrospectiveKrysta RyzewskiPart 5: Belief and Material CultureChapter 16. Where Are the Apotropaic Deposits in Michigan? Shoes, Bottles, and Other Concealments from the Upper and Lower PeninsulasMisty M. JacksonChapter 17. Engagement, Research and Interpretations in the Archaeology of Religious Identity and Practice at the Methodist-Episcopal Parsonage, 1870s-1910s in Four Corners, Troy, MichiganSuzanne M. Spencer-WoodChapter 18. Archaeology in New Harmony: Insights into Daily Life within an Intentional CommunityMichael StrezewskiChapter 19. Radicals, Socialists, Fanatics, and Reclusives: Challenges in the Archaeology and History of Intentional CommunitiesHeather Van WormerConcluding ThoughtsSarah L. Surface-Evans and Misty M. Jackson

“This book is a thorough, up-to-date, and engaging account of Great Lake history” • Robert A. Birmingham, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha