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Following is a partial list of sources used in creating this web site. Click titles for ordering information from Amazon.

All Our Yesterdays
Woodford, Frank B. and Woodford, Arthur M.
Wayne State University Press
Detroit, MI 1969

Cadillac and the Dawn of Detroit
Hivert-Carthew, Annick
Wilderness Adventure Books
Davisburg, MI 1994

City of Destiny
Stark, George W.
Arnold-Powers, Inc.
Detroit, MI 1943

City of Detroit 1701-1922 Volume I
Burton, Clarence M.
The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company
Detroit-Chicago 1922

Focus: Michigan Women 1701-1977
Harris, Fran
Michigan Coordinating Committee of the National Committee on the Observance of Women's Year
USA 1977

Historic Places Around Detroit
Conway, James E.
The Detroit Historical Society
Detroit, MI 1977

I Remember Detroit
Lodge, John C.
USA 1949

Macomb Daily
USA

Michigan Place Names
Walter Romig

Michigan Voices
Grimm, Joe
Detroit Free Press/Wayne State University Press
Detroit, MI 1987

New France 1701-1744 - A Supplement to Europe
Miquelon, Dale
McClelland and Stewart
Toronto, Ontario 1987

Northwest Passage
Roberts, Kenneth
Down East Books
USA 2001

Pontiac and the Indian Uprising
Peckham, Howard H.
Wayne State University Press
Detroit, MI 1994

The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture
Pub_Author Gallagher, John and Hill, Eric
Wayne State University Press
Detroit, MI 2002

The Buildings of Detroit
Ferry, W. Hawkins
Wayne State University Press
Detroit, MI 1968

The Days of Detroit - 2000 Calendar
R.L. Polk & Co. and the Detroit Historical Museum
USA 2000

The Detroit Almanac
Gavrilovich, Peter, and McGraw, Bill
Detroit Free Press
Detroit, MI 2001

The First Michigan Frontier
Goodrich, Calvin
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 1940

The History of Detroit and Michigan - Biographical Edition
Farmer, Silas
Silas Farmer and Co.
Detroit, MI 1889

This is Detroit - 250 Years in Pictures
USA

This is Detroit: 1701-2001
Woodford, Arthur M.
Great Lakes Books
Detroit, MI 2001

When Detroit Was Young
Burton, Clarence M.
Burton Abstract and Title Co.
Detroit, MI

Yesterday's Detroit
Angelo, Frank
E.A. Seeman Publishing, Inc.
Miami, FL 1975

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Glossary:
Algonquin

General term used to describe Native Americans of the following tribes (and others): Delaware, Fox, Huron, Miami, Ojibwa (Chippewa), Ottawa, Potawatomi, Sac, Shawnee and Winnebago.
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arquebus

A 39 pound (approximate) musket that two men would prop on a tri-pod and fire with a small torch. The arquebus was used by Champlain's men against the Iroquois to defend the Hurons. This may be the cause of decades of Iroquois abuse of the Hurons.
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clay and wattle

Building technique used in the construction of chimneys in the early days of Fort Ponchartrain. The technique involved piling sticks and packing them - inside and out - with clay and mud.
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Colbertism

Name for early French mercantilism in America, which Jean-Baptiste Colbert was influential in developing.
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conges

Trade permits issued by the Canadian government/court of France in the late 1600s to early 1700s.
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coureurs de bois

Very early French inhabitants of the current US and Canada who gave up their farmsteads for lives in the fur trade. They often lived with Native Americans.
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District of Hesse

Land district provisioned by the Canadian Council on July 24, 1788. The area was on the east side of the Detroit River.
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Fox

"Properly ""Mesh-kwa-ki-hug"". Native American tribe living in the area between Saginaw Bay and Thunder Bay at the time Detroit was founded. The French called the tribe Renyard. An allied tribe of the Sacs and Mascoutin."
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Huron

A Native American tribe that built a village near Fort Ponchartrain.
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Iroquoian

General term sometimes used to describe Native Americans of the following tribes: Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca.
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Iroquois

"A Native American tribe known for antagonizing and brutalizing the Hurons (see also arquebus)"
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Mascouten

Native American tribe living in the Grand Traverse Bay area at the time Detroit was founded. An allied tribe of the Foxes and Sacs. Also spelled Mascoutin.
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Miami

A Native American tribe that built a village near Fort Ponchartrain.
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Muskhogean

General term used to describe Native Americans of the following tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek.
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New York Currency

First standard currency used in Detroit (first used in 1765).
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Ottawa

A Native American tribe that built a village near Fort Ponchartrain.
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Outagamies

Native American tribe living in the Grand Traverse Bay area at the time Detroit was founded. An allied tribe of the Foxes (and Sacs?).
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Plains Indians

General term used to describe Native Americans of the following tribes: Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, and Pawnee (Pani).
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Potawatomi

A Native American tribe that built a village near Fort Ponchartrain.
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Quebec Act

Act of June 22, 1774, in which British Parliament decides to exercise English law in criminal cases and old French provincial law in civil cases in western settlements. The idea was to discourage people from settling in the west.
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Renyard

See Fox
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ribbon farms

Original land grants given by Cadillac. The lots were typically around 200 feet wide at the river front, with lengths up to 3 miles.
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Sac

See Sauk
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Sakis

See Sauk
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Sauk

Native American tribe living in the area between Saginaw Bay and Thunder Bay at the time Detroit was founded. The French called the tribe Sakis; English and Americans generally call them Sacs. An allied tribe of the Foxes/Renyards and Mascouten.
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Shoshonean

General term used to describe Native Americans of the following tribes: Bannock and Shoshone.
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Treaty of Montreal

Treaty ending the war between the Iroquois and France and England. Negotiations began in July of 1698 and the treaty was signed in August of 1701.
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Treaty of Ryswick

September 20, 1697 treaty ending war between France and England.
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voyageurs

Early French explorers who traveled mainly by water.