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Morrissey, Robert M Hoxie, Frederick E. Hoganson, Kristin L Edmunds, Russel D 2023-08 application/pdf en text Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01 The student, David Lehman, accepted the attached license on 2023-07-13 at 14:36. The student, David Lehman, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2023-07-13 at 14:37. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2023-07-13 at 20:26. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #19681 on 2023-12-04 at 17:18:40 Keeping fires, tending lands: The practices and legacy of Potawatomi farming around Lake Michigan, 1700-1900 Lehman, David Bontrager Horst 2023-07-13 Potawatomi Soil History Native American American Indian Local History Historical Geography Surveyor Land Patent Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Lake Michigan Watershed Works of history that focus on the Potawatomi nation and U.S. settler invasions, even when written “from below” have previously focused on the political and cultural dynamics of conflict over land. This project approaches the same historical topic “from the ground up,” focusing on the material object of contests between Native and invading peoples: the soil. This work uses soil analysis, written accounts of Potawatomi land use, and GIS mapping of settler invasion to study geographic patterns of the significant overlap in Native and settler land interests in the early 19th century. Potawatomi management of local fire regimes maintained the ecological borders of prairie-forest mosaic across Potawatomi homelands, impacting soil formation. The spatial pattern of invasion shows that aspiring settler landowners targeted Potawatomi-crafted farmland before other soils, and naming Potawatomi land management as farming exposes both historical and scientific works that fail to recognize how indigenous peoples shape their homelands’ soils and ecologies to begin the work of reversing such erasure by foregrounding the active aspects of Native presence and persistence and putting Potawatomi people at the center of an account of Potawatomi homelands over time. Text eng https://hdl.handle.net/2142/121366 Copyright 2023 David Lehman Ph.D. Dissertation History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign History