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pepperj said:
Gee I am not really in the loop.
I only worked a total of 4 yrs of my working days for somebody else.
I did it my way.



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When I used to volunteer at a nursing home, was for people from 50 to elderly that had to be in there, they did a course which involved that crap. Then they were going to have me do the exact same scripted things others do and have done repetitively and mindlessly like robots for the patients. I said no, im here to be their friend and ill treat them that way, im not doing the bingo, im not doing the program. They gave me a go. I would take in dvds of movies a certain one liked and watch them eating chips with them having a laugh, download their favourite music onto usb sticks for them to listen to. Shop for them. Take some in wheel chairs down to the shops for a look around. One used to love Judge Judy, id sit with him and we'd kill ourselves laughing at the courtroom antics. Another got a gel shooter, small not like the ones here, and we'd close the door and shoot targets. :laughing7:
In the mean time others were going through the motions of bingo, sticking cut out pictures onto paper etc...like zombies.
We did have some fun. I cracked angry cranky George who didn't want to see anyone and kept his door closed. We became great friends, he'd still be cranky but in a nice way to me, we'd watch old westerns and Clint Eastwood movies, but I had to close the door still, he didn't like the others.
So yeah I bucked the sheep clone thing there and was a free roamer which they had never had. Bingo and cut outs, for men, were they serious!? Wasn't gonna happen with me. 😁
 

releventchair said:
The Sault is rich in history. The St. Mary's produced for long before Euro exploitation. And account exists of the conflict of subtle competition when both parties worked the river for fish.
Little imagination need as to who got the short end of the stick. 1820 Sault treaty meant an American fort built where Prior French fort was to defend against British interests....
Yet Natives remained. But then where would they have gone?
Through the digging of the locks (through burial ground) to the gaunt results of locks being built and the resultant unemployed. A Native not involved in digging and being old school instead would likely have fared just fine.

Civilization swung through the Straights South of there regular too. From quite a distance at times. Later it would draw the likes of Marquette "exploring" along old routes. Camps of hundreds.

Perhaps Missionaries inspired winter settlement there.
Numbers seem to indicate such.
But compared to the river valleys does seem like being exposed.

This recent cold has the West side of the state lakeshore much warmer due to the lack of ice/warmer water.
But getting more lake effect snow in the bargain.

Time worn routine had lakeshore in summer and river valley in winter.
I don't question Natives doing so. Eons for them to figure out where to winter.
Groups didn't seem to need to split up like farther North in areas.
Sault or Straights (Mackinaw) I read of buried corn for food but that must have been post contact and late woodland?

Regarding groups splitting up for winter to up the odds of not depleting resources there are soil maps that show a jagged line kind of midstate from West to East and climbing Eastward.
The richer soil on South side supporting more life.
An example is Muskegon where many folks lived together. But just inland and above there the soil is good mostly only in pockets/small areas. Glacial scouring and old seabed cursed or blessed areas. And retreating/melting glaciers left deposits as well. Followed by the organic material built up over eons after.

Fish and corn and firewood. And more firewood.
Might have been fairly clear beaches compared to farther North and ten/fifteen yards or more of driftwood some places.
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That’s interesting, thank you. I might go up there this summer, would be more hospitable.
 

We're going to be having one day of 32F temperatures tomorrow. Then again next Sunday.
It's 5F feels like -4F outside at the moment.
 

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