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v979v122945	John William Nelson	The Geography to Command a Continent: Native Peoples, Europeans, and the Chicago Portage	2020		.txt	text/plain	367	12	28	This study focuses on one five-mile stretch of muddy ground connecting the Des Plaines and Chicago Rivers, in order to explore the continued importance of environmental factors and local geographies within the wider history of indigenous-European relations on the North American continent. They adopted indigenous techniques of canoeing and relied on Native knowledge of local portage environments to extend maritime networks deep within the continent.	cache/v979v122945.txt	txt/v979v122945.txt