{"id":3321,"date":"2022-01-18T21:29:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T02:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/?page_id=3321"},"modified":"2022-01-18T22:12:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T03:12:07","slug":"trade-routes-and-settlement-patterns","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/?page_id=3321","title":{"rendered":"Trade Routes and Settlement Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;As Native American Civilizations flourished, they began to trade with one another, using waterways and other trails to cross the continent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">[Barnes, Dr. Ian, \u00a0<em>The Historical Atlas of Native Americans<\/em>],\u00a02010<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that at about 1450 AD, some major routes included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the Mississippi River was a major north-south route,<\/li>\n<li>its tributaries linked routes to east and west (Wisconsin, Missouri, Arkansas),<\/li>\n<li>the St. Lawrence R. was major east-west access through the Great Lakes to Grand Portage and into Lake of the Woods,<\/li>\n<li>the Straits of Mackinac was a terminus to link southward travel across Lakes Huron and Erie and via the Sandusky and Scioto to the Ohio River,<\/li>\n<li>an eastern link from the St. Lawrence River via the Richelieu R., Lake Champlain, and the Hudson R. led to the Atlantic coast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These trade links brought tribes into direct and indirect contact with each other and encouraged an exchange of culture and the development of alliances to increase power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3331\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/?attachment_id=3331\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thisiswilmot.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Origins.Map_.Trade_.1450.jpeg?fit=1429%2C1686&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1429,1686\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;9000F Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Origins.Map.Trade.1450\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thisiswilmot.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Origins.Map_.Trade_.1450.jpeg?fit=868%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3331\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thisiswilmot.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Origins.Map_.Trade_.1450.jpeg?resize=887%2C1047&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"887\" height=\"1047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thisiswilmot.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Origins.Map_.Trade_.1450.jpeg?w=1429&amp;ssl=1 1429w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thisiswilmot.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Origins.Map_.Trade_.1450.jpeg?resize=254%2C300&amp;ssl=1 254w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thisiswilmot.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Origins.Map_.Trade_.1450.jpeg?resize=868%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 868w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thisiswilmot.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Origins.Map_.Trade_.1450.jpeg?resize=768%2C906&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thisiswilmot.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Origins.Map_.Trade_.1450.jpeg?resize=1302%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1302w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thisiswilmot.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Origins.Map_.Trade_.1450.jpeg?resize=947%2C1117&amp;ssl=1 947w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thisiswilmot.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Origins.Map_.Trade_.1450.jpeg?resize=624%2C736&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thisiswilmot.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Origins.Map_.Trade_.1450.jpeg?resize=1320%2C1557&amp;ssl=1 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 887px) 100vw, 887px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As Native American Civilizations flourished, they began to trade with one another, using waterways and other trails to cross the continent.&#8221; 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