At the Michigan Historical Museum
 
Find and identify at least six artifacts created by Native Americans in the
wall of cases about Michigan's precontact times. Figure out how each was used.
This case (left) with Paleo artifacts in the Michigan
Historical Museum shows fluted points, stone tools and a caribou skin with bone
tools including a needle and an awl. The drills (above right) are from the
Archaic period. (Photos by David Woods.)
See the canoe in the Woodland Gallery. Imagine yourself as an early European
explorer or fur trader in this scene of Michigan as it looked 400 years ago.
Study the exhibit case in the center of the Two Cultures fort. It shows that trade
goods such as blankets replaced furs in Indian lives after the arrival of
Europeans. What other changes in the lives of native people after the arrival of
Europeans can you find?
The Michigan Historical Museum is located two
blocks west of the State Capitol in downtown Lansing. For more information, visit www.michigan.gov/museum.
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