The Founding Mothers of Mackinac Island: The Agatha Biddle Band of 1870 ceremony and fashion

and fashion

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The Founding Mothers of Mackinac Island: The Agatha Biddle Band of 1870 ceremony and fashionDrawing on a wide array of historical sources, Theresa L. Weller provides a comprehensive history of the lineage of the seventy four members of the Agatha Biddle band in 1870. A highly unusual Native and Mtis community, the band included just eight men but sixty six women. Agatha Biddle was a member of the band from its first enumeration in 1837 and became its chief in the early 1860s. Also, unlike most other bands, which were typically made up of