First Contacts

Realities and Relationships at First Contacts between Native Americans and Europeans

The conference was part of the Lake Champlain Voyages of Discovery: Bringing History Home project, conducted by the Chimney Point State Historic Site, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation with the University of Maine Farmington Archaeology Research Center, Vermont Public Television with Broadwing Productions, and the Bixby Memorial Free Library in Vergennes.

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Champlain Tech Project, The In 1609, Champlain and the Native world stood at a little known material crossroads between...	09/25/2008	Watch	Buy
First Jamestown Historical archaeology continues to be a powerful way to re-discover 1607 Jamestown, Virginia...	09/25/2008	Watch	Buy
Gudrid the Far-Traveler Drawing from her book THE FAR TRAVELER, Nancy Marie Brown tells the story of Gudrid, a Viking...	09/25/2008	Watch	Buy
Jacques Cartier and the Archaeology of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians In 1535, French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and visited the...	09/25/2008	Watch	Buy
Mississquoi Bay, Ticonderoga, and Places in Between From the beginning of time Indigenous people have always known the names of places on the...	09/25/2008	Watch	Buy
New France and the Nations of the Northeast Woodlands Having elected the Saint Lawrence River as their portal to the interior of the continent, the...	09/25/2008	Watch	Buy
Nice, Commodious Buildings and Hospitable Famillies This presentation examines the long-term impacts of European colonialism on the Indigenous...	09/25/2008	Watch	Buy
Plant Connection, The Knowledge of plants and their uses was key to survival in the early contact period....	09/25/2008	Watch	Buy
Voyages of Discovery Elsa Gilbertson shares the story of how the Chimney Point State Historic Site and the VT...	09/25/2008	Watch	Buy

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