This site will narrate some of the travels around North American, in particular those that Paul DeMain (Skabewis) guides with GoNativeAmerica and those affiliated with fair trade tourist groups.

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This blog (My Style) will be updated with other historical details in many categories as we research and find more narratives, maps and oral history about the sites we have visited. Information that is in bold has been taken from other research sources.

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We leave on this trip searching for evidence of the Ojibwe and the Indigenous people that lived here before their arrival. We find scant evidence of either. Much of the ancient history of the so-called Paleo, Archiac, Hopewell and Cahokia Mound people is boiled down to artifacts in museums, and a few mounds that have survived excavation. You need to rely on maps and documents developed by archaeologists, historians and local expertise. Despite that, I found inspiration in the number of beautiful sites in which you can still envision a village and the community interacting there, farming, hunting, fishing, creating structures, burying their ancestors and evidence of pathways, roads, landings and the artwork people left behind.

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We also spend a great deal of time reading about and finding those spots that early explorers and settlers made as they immigrated into North America. The generally excepted reality: they followed the roads and Native freeway systems, the water highways, portages and paths, drinking from well known spring sites, camping in Indian waysides and villages, hunting and feeding themselves at places pointed out to them by the local inhabitants and trading for supplies with well established Native food chain entrepreneurs. Therefore, where you find the Ojibwe, or some other group, you find explorers coming through as well.