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Before this course I have taken other anthropology courses which taught me that they have lived here for a long time. I have always been interested most in Native American history and have had a good grasp on the timeline of their "arrival". I assumed that their arrival in Michigan would be a little bit later than their initial arrival in North America. I figured so because the journey over would take a little bit before moving on from exploring the northern west coast areas.

Something that I found extremely surprising was the age that people get married in a Hunter-Gatherer lifestyle. I have always heard of marriage at such a young age, especially for girls. I knew it was to have large families for farming, because survival rates were lower,

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