2026 History Series (Episode 3): Métis Portage—Being In Between, Being Something New

Описание: EPISODE 3: BEING IN BETWEEN, BEING SOMETHING NEW
As the life rhythms of two very different cultures were united to form families, each new household navigated its own route to determining what cultural model they would build their family upon. Join us for a birds-eye view of the broad kaleidoscope of what being “in-between” meant for daily life and family at Métis Portage.

https://www.agencyhouse.org/metisportage

Selected sources for further reading:

Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest, by Juliette Kinzie, contains fascinating firsthand accounts of people introduced in this series.

Neither White Men nor Indians, by Linda Waggoner, is a book which contains transcripts of the 1838-9 Winnebago Mixed Blood Commission papers. These are an incredible trove of personal firsthand perspectives and stories from this pivotal era.

Reminisces in the volumes of the Wisconsin Historical Collections. https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Reco...

Family trees at familysearch.org and wikitree.com

Audio in Video
Billy in the Lowground by Nat Keefe & Hot Buttered Rum, YouTube Audio Library
Bluegrass Fiddle .wav by TheFlyFishingFilmmaker -- https://freesound.org/s/621593/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
D5 Native American Style Flute 2 by Wood_Flutes -- https://freesound.org/s/447634/ -- License: Attribution 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Daley’s Reel by Nat Keefe with the Bow Ties, YouTube Audio Library
Last Train to Mars by Dan Lebowitz, YouTube Audio Library
Persian Delight by Robhog -- https://freesound.org/s/685319/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
rainbow.mp3 by Kerri Lake -- https://freesound.org/s/27256/ -- License: Attribution 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Sad Mandolin by Cottager -- https://freesound.org/people/cottager... -- License: CC0
Somnia I by Reed Mathis, YouTube Audio Library
Sunrise by Nat Keefe, Youtube Audio Library
track3.mp3 by Kerri Lake -- https://freesound.org/s/58810/ -- License: Attribution 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Veracruz by Quincas Moreira, YouTube Audio Library
White River by Aakash Gandhi, YouTube Audio Library
Yonder Hill and Dale by Aaron Kenny, YouTube Audio Library
No changes made to audio clips beyond cropping, fading, and splicing.
Various CC0 Sounds from Freesound.org
Visuals
Beauties of the New England Primer, Published by Samuel Wood & Sons, Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, https://lccn.loc.gov/10011910
“Colton’s Township Map of the State of Wisconsin” by J. H. Colton, Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division https://lccn.loc.gov/2018588058
“Ee-tów-o-kaum” by George Catlin, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Document Images from National Archives Microfilms, Treaties, and Records
Drone Footage by Tim Hatfield
“Farmer with Scythe Walking Down Road After Livestock” by Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Cabinet of American Illustration, https://lccn.loc.gov/2010715564
Fort Winnebago Surgeons Quarters Historic Site
“Gathering Wild Rice, on the Fox river, Wisconsin, by the Winnebago Indians” by George Catlin, National Gallery of Art, https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-ob...
“Hercules L. Dousman Papers, 1808-1857,” by Hercules Dousman, From the Newberry Library Edward E Ayer Collection, https://collections.newberry.org/asse...
Heritage Hill State Park
“Karachowekaw (A Blue Cloud Passing By) and Child, Winnebago” by Unknown Photographer, From the Newberry Library Edward E Ayer Collection, https://collections.newberry.org/asse...
“Map of the Route of the Military Road” by A J Center, National Archives, Courtesy of Patrick Jung
“Map of the Fox River and that Part of the Winnebagoe Lake” by Unknown Cartographer, Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, https://lccn.loc.gov/2009580303
“Metis Dance, devil’s Lake, Dakota Territory” by Louis Voelkerer, Minnesota Historical Society Collections
“North Western and Michigan Territories” by Fielding Lucas, Jr. and B. T. Welch, Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, https://lccn.loc.gov/78690135
“Photographers and Wagon,” Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, https://lccn.loc.gov/2012649238
Portaging Illustration by A Novey
Portrait of Native Woman, by Unknown Artist, Historic Indian Agency House Collection
Portrait of Samuel Mazzuchelli in Memoirs: Historical and Edifying, Library of Congress, General Collections and Rare Book and Special Collections Division, https://lccn.loc.gov/15016252
“Prairie du Chien” by Seth Eastman, Minnesota Historical Society Collection
Replica Metis Clothing by Walters Family
Traveling to Portage by A Novey
Waukon Council by A Novey
CC0 Images from Pixabay