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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Friends and colleagues:
The early history of the North American colonial frontier takes on more meaning
when archaeologists recover direct evidence left behind at key sites. The
search for such evidence can be very trying and may require both persistence
and endurance, as demonstrated by <em><span style="font-family: Arial;">In Search
of Fort St. Joseph</span></em>, the latest video feature on our nonprofit
streaming-media Web site, <em><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">The
Archaeology Channel</span></b></em> (<a href="http://www.archaeologychannel.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span class="yshortcuts"><span style=""><span id="lw_1278370311_1">http://www.archaeologychannel.org</span></span></span></a>).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Fort</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">St. Joseph</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">, begun as a French
Jesuit mission in the 1680s, was one of the earliest European settlements in
the western </span><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><span id="lw_1278370311_2">Great Lakes</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> and, as an important
link among the remote settlements of </span><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><span id="lw_1278370311_3">New France</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">, facilitated the fur
trade with Native peoples. For almost 80 years, French priests, enlisted
men, and traders lived here closely with the native Potowatomi and </span><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><span id="lw_1278370311_4">Miami</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">. After 1781, the
fort eventually eroded away and its location was forgotten. This film,
the first of our two-part series on </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Fort</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">St. Joseph</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">, describes the search
for the fort by the 2002 </span><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><span id="lw_1278370311_5">Western</span></span></span><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">
</span></span><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Michigan</span></span><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">
</span></span><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">University</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> summer field school.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">This and other programs
are available on TAC for your use and enjoyment. We urge you to support
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and <span class="yshortcuts"><span style="cursor: pointer;" id="lw_1278370311_7">Underwriting</span></span>
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programs. Only with your help can we continue and enhance our nonprofit
public-education and visitor-supported programming. We also welcome new
content partners as we reach out to the world community.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Richard M. Pettigrew,
Ph.D., RPA<br>
President and Executive Director<br>
Archaeological Legacy Institute<br>
<a href="http://www.archaeologychannel.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="">http://www.archaeologychannel.org</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><font size="1"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Meara Butler</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><font size="1">Archaeological Legacy Institute List
Serve Coordinator</font></span></p>