Russel Barsh: The Salish Sea and North America in 1418

What was happening in the Northwest 600 years ago in the context of political, military, and economic developments elsewhere on the continent?  The treaty ending the 100-years war between the Wabanaki Confederacy and Six Nations; growth of cities along the fringe of the Aztec imperial trade network; and first repercussions of the Little Ice Age on the nature and extent of farming–the evolution of the North American “world system.”

Held at the San Juan Island Library