Summer Island Site
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The Summer Island Site, designated 20DE4, is an archaeological site located on the northwest side of Summer Island, in Delta County, Michigan. It is classified as a stratified, multi-component site wi
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Petun
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The Petun, also known as the Tobacco people or Tionontati, were an indigenous Iroquoian people of the woodlands of eastern North America. Their traditional homeland was south of Lake Huron's Georgian
Summer Island Site
…Isle Royale in Lake Superior, Michigan. These types have also been reported from the Rock Island II site in Wisconsin where they are present in a Huron/Petun/Ottawa occupation dating c. 1650/51–1653 A.D. This community had been displaced from Ontario during the Iroquois Wars, and later amalgamated into the…
1914 illustration depicting the artist's concept of a Petun woman cultivating tobacco
Interior of a longhouse, near Toronto