RESEARCH RESOURCES: INDIANA DUNES, CALUMET REGION, THE GREAT LAKES

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The Congress welcomes submission and presentation of your ongoing environmental theory and criticism, but we also want to encourage the concrete application of your thinking to the Dunes and Lakes. To this end, we are posting public links and research citations for materials focused on the region. Please send suggestions and recommendations to jarthos [at] indiana [dot] edu about primary and secondary research in regional environmental history, culture, and criticism as we continue to build this resource page.

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FIRST NATIONS

Ancient Chicago Indian Mounds

Native American Sites of the Chicago Region

Indigenous Peoples in Indiana (Department of Natural Resources)

An Ethnobotany of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore: Plant Uses of the Ojibwa People

“In Michigan, Rising Lake Levels Disturb Sacred Ground,” (Great Lakes Now, Sept. 16, 2020)

Matthew A. Werner, “Wanatah, Indiana: Knee Deep in the Mud?” (2020)

Indigenous Perspectives for a Sustainable Environment Resource Page (Dunes Learning Center)

“Native Knowledge of Great Lakes Ecology: Climate Changes to Odawa Lands” Frontiers in Climate, (March 27, 2023)

Map of Indigenous Trails (reconstruction)

NATIONAL PARKS

History of Indiana Dunes National Park

National Parks Service – History

Resource Stewardship Strategy Summary (Indiana Dunes National Park, 2019)

“A Complete Indiana Dunes Park Guide for International Travelers” (2019)

Dreams of Duneland: A Pictorial History of the Indiana Dunes Region (IU Press, 2013)

National Park Conservation Association

A Nationalized Lakeshore: The Creation and Administration of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

“America’s Newest National Park”

REGIONAL PLANNING

Ava Tomasula y Garcia, “What Indiana Dunes National Park & the Border Wall Have in Common,” Belt Magazine (April 5, 2019)

Colin Fisher, Urban Green: Nature, Recreation and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago (2015)

“Saving the Dunes: The Plan to Establish a new national Playground on the Shores of Lake Michigan,” (The Survey, Dec. 9, 1916)

“Experimental Restoration of Native Vegetation in Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore,” Restoration Ecology 6:1 (2002)

Mayor Richard M. Daley's Calumet Area Land Use Plan (primary document)

geo history

Studies in the Late Prehistory of Indiana (Historical Preservation & Archeology)

Indiana Dunes: The Administrative History of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore

Geology of the Chicago Region (Pleistocene), State Geological Survey

“History of Lake, Porter, and LaPorte,” Porter County, Indiana (web)

Historic Resource Study: Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, A. Berle Clemensen, 1979

Description of the Chicago District, William C. Alden

Northwest Indiana Historian James B. Lane (blog)

Invasive Plant Atlas of the U.S.: Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore

Geologic Story of Indiana Dunes State Park

eco history

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Calumet Region Bibliography (Purdue University NW)

2017 Calumet National Heritage Area Initiative

The Case for the Calumet National Heritage Area (slideshow report)

Calumet Heritage Area (official)

Illinois Geology Useful Publications (bibliography)

Illinois Geology Chicago Region Online Books Page

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore History Archives

Evolution of the Conservation Movement, United States Library of Congress

Indiana Dunes State Park: A History and Description (1930)

local historIES

Calumet Regional Archives, IU Northwest

James B. Lane Regional Social History Resources

Administrative History of the Indiana Dunes (5-star)

Encyclopedia of Chicago Online Database

Steel Shavings Calumet Region Social History Magazine

Apostle Islands, Wisconsin

Marquette-Greenway Vision Report, Northwest Indiana Planning Commission

The South Shore Journal

Ogden Dunes Planned Community

US GenWeb Archives

Indiana Web Archives

Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization, University of Chicago

Good Fellow Youth Camp at IDNP

Prairie Club Archives

Richard & Flora Richardson Collection

henry cowles

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Cowles Bog, Indiana: A Study in Historical Geography & the History of Ecology

“Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan.” Botanical Gazette 27 (1899): 95–117, 167–202, 281–308, 361–391. Cowles’s PhD dissertation.

“The Physiographic Ecology of Chicago and Vicinity: A Study of the Origin, Development, and Classification of Plant Societies.” Botanical Gazette 31 (1901): 73–108, 145–182. Published also, with an accompanying map and minor changes to the text, as The Plant Societies of Chicago andVicinity. The Geographic Society of Chicago Bulletin, no. 2. Chicago: The Geographic Society of Chicago, 1901.

Cittadino, Eugene. “‘A Marvelous Cosmopolitan Preserve’: The Dunes, Chicago, and the Dynamic Ecology of Henry Cowles.” Perspectives on Science 1 (1993): 320–359.

Engel, J. Ronald. Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the Indiana Dunes. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1983. Chapter 4, “The Birthplace of Ecology.”