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# Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America

**Brand:** michael a. mcdonnell
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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Essential Great Lakes Reading.
  

*by B***N on Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2023*

Michael McDonnell has composed a thorough and comprehensive study of the critical historical importance of the Straits and the Odawa Nation. The reader follows the timeline of early European contact and the implications of their dependence on the powerful Michillimackinac Odawa people. Each in turn, both the French and British were manipulated into conforming with their culture of trade and warfare. This book is an excellent companion to Charles Cleland's book, Rites of Conquest.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Masters of Empire a must read for historians!
  

*by R***S on Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2019*

Dr. Michael McDonnell's Masters of Empire (Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America) is a must read by all American history enthusiasts, whether in academia, or not!His explanation of the importance of the Upper Great Lakes Woodland Indian Canoe Culture in the development of the North American continent is stunning. It is an extremely important fact unexplored by earlier historians. Michilimackinac, and Mackinac Island, at one time were the centers of the North American continent's commerce. Both before the arrival of Europeans, and soon after their arrival.Dr. Charles Cleland in his book, Rites of Conquest, discusses this same area's center for commerce involving "chert" (for stone tools) as beginning 8,000 years prior to the life of Jesus Christ. It was later replaced by the fur trade, and after that commercial fishing in the 17th-18th and 19th centuries. All of which, was under the control of local Woodland Indian Canoe Culture-the Anishinaabe!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Well researched, but a little pretentious
  

*by W***K on Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2018*

The author is a professor in Australia, so it is hard to understand why he wrote this book in the first place. His repeated use of the French term "pays d'en haut" for the Great Lakes region, and his frequent use of the word "Odawa" instead of the commonly used "Ottawa," seem like an affectation, as if he were trying to be different for its own sake. However, the book has a good deal of information and many sources, well documented.

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