TIMELINE
The Timeline is an overview of historic events. This section aims to:

- Explore primary historical documents in context with Ojibwe perspectives - where speakers narrate the impact of policies and events on Ojibwe life.

- Position Great Lakes history within the larger geographical context of North American and World events.

- Put into perspective a small part of the story of "how things came to be" the way they are today.

Each Timeline era contains overlays for events and dates at three levels: Local (Great Lakes), North America, and the World. Within each of these overlays certain events open to a variety of primary resources including: maps, historic documents, and oral histories from Ojibwe speakers.

From the MainMenu, if you choose the Timeline you will find yourself in another menu where you can choose which era you would like to enter and explore. Click once on the era of your choice and there will be a short audio visual transition that will take you to the part of the timeline you have chosen. There are main screen events visible as you enter each era - if you click on the Local, N. America or World icons, you will see the overlays for each of these different contexts. Wherever there is a bead you can click for further resources: narrative from Ojibwe speakers, maps, and scrolling text documents.

You can control the narrative with the buttons to the right of the speaker pictured. All text documents can be scrolled normally or closed by clicking on the close button in the upper left of the text window. If you see a forward arrow in the upper right of the text box then there is more than one text document to view. You can always close all resources by clicking on the same bead that opened them. You can return to the Timeline era chooser by clicking on the word TIMELINE in the upper left of the sidebar.