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The Great Northwest Athletic Conference ( GNAC ) is a college athletic conference which has historically operated in the Northwestern United States, but also currently includes four schools in areas not usually considered part of that region — two in Alaska ( neither of which is located in Southeast Alaska, an area often considered part of the Northwest ), one in eastern Montana ( almost never considered part of the region ), and one in the Canadian province of British Columbia ( an area included with the Northwest U. S. in the larger Pacific Northwest region ).
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In addition to the Pacific Northwest, the Great Lakes region and the Southeastern United States have had many reports of Bigfoot sightings.
The Canadian Great Lakes region has similarities to that of the Upper Midwest & Great Lakes region and / or Yooper dialect ( in particular Michigan which has extensive cultural and economic ties with Ontario ), while the phonological system of western Canadian English is virtually identical to that of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and the phonetics are similar.
Ice road on Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, 2009
* Leith Peninsula, Northwest Territories ( in Great Bear Lake )
Starting in the 2011-2012 season, SFU will be competing in the NCAA ’ s Division II Great Northwest Athletic Conference ( GNAC ).
SFU will compete in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.
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It is especially important, and frequently depicted, in the art, songs and oral histories of many Pacific Northwest Coast cultures, and is found in various forms among the peoples of the American Southwest, Great Lakes, and Great Plains.
Ohio would thus be granted access to most or all of the Lake Erie shoreline west of Pennsylvania, and any other new states carved out of the Northwest Territory would have access to the Great Lakes via Lakes Michigan, Huron, and Superior.
This status was renewed and reinforced by the Quebec Act of 1774, which expanded Quebec's territory to include part of the Indian Reserve to the west ( i. e., parts of southern Ontario ), and other western territories south of the Great Lakes including much of what would become the United States ' Northwest Territory, including the modern states: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota.
Many other battles were fought in American territory bordering Upper Canada, including the Northwest Territory ( most in modern day Michigan ), upstate New York and naval battles in the Great Lakes.
Great Britain then ceded the area to the United States at the end of the American Revolutionary War, though the Northwest Territory remained under de facto British control until 1796.
Another important source of pitchblende is at Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada, where it is found in large quantities associated with silver.
To the distant Northwest of the " Known World ", across the Great Waste, lays the mysterious lands of Hule, ruled by Hosadus, also known as " The Master ".
Having been ceded to the United States by Great Britain after the American Revolution by the Treaty of Paris, the lands north of the Ohio River and west of the Appalachian Mountains became, in 1784, incorporated into the Northwest Territory.
He was the chief executive officer of a family of lines headed by the Great Northern Railway, which served a substantial area of the Upper Midwest, the northern Great Plains, and Pacific Northwest.
From the Western extreme of Quelpart to Ka Nyo or West Pinnacle Island ( 34 ° 13 ' N ) in the Mengoru Group, thence to the North point of Oku To ( 34 ° 22 ' N ), to the West point of Small South Stone Island ( Syo-Zyonan To ) and the North point of Great South Stone Island ( Zyonan To ) ( 34 ° 24 ' N ) to a point on the coast of Tin To ( 34 ° 25 ' N ) along the Northwest coast of this island to the North point thereof, and thence on a line in a Northeasterly direction to the mainland of Tyosen ( Korea ).
The Western Lakes Confederacy was a loose confederacy of tribes around the Great Lakes region following the American Revolutionary War organized to resist the expansion of the US into the Northwest Territory.
The freetekno movement appeared in first half of the 1990s and is currently very strong in France, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Austria, Poland, Canada and Cascadia – the US Pacific Northwest.
The Eastern limit of the Great Australian Bight line from Cape Otway, Australia, to King Island ( Tasmania ) | King Island and thence to Cape Grim, the Northwest extreme of Tasmania < nowiki ></ nowiki >.
Jackson and Banting also made painting expeditions to Great Slave Lake, Walsh Lake ( Northwest Territories ), Georgian Bay, French River and the Sudbury District.
CWU is part of NCAA Division II and is part of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.
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* Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales, an association of private boys ' schools
NMU ’ s Wildcats compete in the NCAA's Division II Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in basketball, football, golf, skiing, cross country, soccer, volleyball, track & field, and swimming / diving.
Michigan Tech's athletic teams are nicknamed the Huskies and compete primarily in the NCAA Division II Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ( GLIAC ).
In 2006, they moved to the North Central Conference, because the Great Northwest Athletic Conference announced it would discontinue its participation in football following the 2005 season.
In 2008, The Great Northwest Athletic Conference reinstated football, and Central Washington along with Western Washington rejoined the conference, so the previous format of the Battle in Seattle being played at CenturyLink Field and the Cascade Cup was contested in Ellensburg.
The Mid-American Conference ( MAC ) is a National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Division I college athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois.
* The Central Washington University and Western Washington University football teams joined with Dixie State College of Utah, Humboldt State University, and Western Oregon University to reform the Great Northwest Athletic Conference football division.
Both schools are moving from the NAIA, with USF leaving the Great Plains Athletic Conference, and Minot State leaving the Dakota Athletic Conference.
Eight of the nine football-playing members ( Concord, Charleston, Fairmont State, Glenville State, Shepherd, West Liberty, West Virginia State, and West Virginia Wesleyan ) and one non-football playing member ( Wheeling Jesuit ) of the conference ; alongside joining a provisional D-II member from Virginia ( UVA-Wise ), and two associate Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference members from Ohio ( Notre Dame and Urbana ), to form a new all-sports conference, the Mountain East Conference.
Three of the remaining non-football members ( Alderson – Broaddus, Davis & Elkins, and Ohio Valley ) accepted invitations to join the Great Midwest Athletic Conference.
Men's and women's athletic teams are members of the NCAA Division II and Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
Smith was subsequently inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a " Gator Great " in 1999, the Gator Football Ring of Honor and the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006.
The university's athletic teams participate in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference at the Division II level of the NCAA.
The Chargers, as the Hillsdale athletics teams are known, compete in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
Ferris State offers an intercollegiate athletic program which includes 14 men ’ s and women ’ s sports at the NCAA Division II level, except for men's ice hockey which competes in NCAA Division I. Ferris States is a member of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ( GLIAC ) in all sports except ice hockey, in which the team is part of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.
Piedmont College, LaGrange College and Maryville College left the Great South Athletic Conference on July 1, 2012.
On May 10, 2012, Covenant College and Huntingdon College announced plans to leave the Great South and join USA South Athletic Conference beginning in the 2013-2014 season.
Along with the American Southwest Conference ( ASC ) and Great Northeast Athletic Conference ( GNAC ), it is the largest all-sports conference in Division III.
The Great Plains Athletic Conference ( GPAC ) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the NAIA.
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