Reprints in Anthropology Volume 31

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction............................................................................................ i

Janet Spector

The Plains-Lakes Connection: Reflections from a Western Perspective.............................................................................................. 1

W. Raymond Wood

Vegetation History Along the Prairie-Forest Border in Minnesota ................................................................................................ 9

Eric C. Grimm

Late Prehistoric Selection of Wild Ungulates in the Prairie- Forest Transition...................................................................................31

C. Thomas Shay

A Structural Comparison of the Maplewood, Scott, and Lake Midden Sites............................................................................................ 65

Charles Watrail

Fitting People in the Late Prehistory of the Northeastern Plains........................................................................................................73

E. Leigh Syms

A Search for the Cree in the Archaeoethnology of the Northeastern Periphery......................................................................... 108

Jack Steinbring

The Problem of Teton Migration..........................................................131

Michael Michlovic

Early Mdewakanton Dakota Culture and Interpretations for Archaeology: A Re-evaluation, 1640 - 1780..................................... 146

Bryce Little The 17th Century Mdewakanton Dakota Subsistence Mode....................154

Elden Johnson 

Ethnoarchaeology and Little Rapids: A New Approach to 19th Century Eastern Dakota Sites........................................................ 167

Janet D. Spector