The Myth of Moccasin Bluff: Rethinking the Potawatomi Pattern

Ethnohistory

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 373-406

  O'Gorman, Jodie A ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34548049519     PISSN: 00141801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00141801-2007-001     Document Type: Article

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