Rethinking the Fur Trade Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World

Name: Rethinking the Fur Trade Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World
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ISBN: 9780803243293

ISBN-10: 0803243294

ISBN-13: 9780803243293

Edition: 2009

Authors: Susan Sleeper-Smith

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List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 12/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 702
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 2.376
Language: English

Susan Sleeper-Smith, professor of history at Michigan State University, is the author ofIndian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakesand the editor ofContesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives(Nebraska 2009). nbsp; Contributors: Dean Anderson, Donald F. Bibeau, Mary Black-Rogers, Bruce J. Bourque, Jennifer S. H. Brown, Allen Chronister, James L. Clayton, Bruce Cox, W. J. Eccles, William F. Ganong, James A. Hanson, Gail D. MacLeitch, D. Peter MacLeod, D. W. Moodie, Jacqueline Petersen, Carolyn Podruchny, Gail DeBuse Potter, Arthur J. Ray, Timothy J. Shannon, Susan Sleeper-Smith, Helen Hornbeck Tanner, Reuben Gold Thwaites, Sylvia Van…



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Source Acknowledgments



New Perspectives



Cultures of Exchange in a North Atlantic World




Indian Voices Introduction



Of the Mission of Saint Francois Xavier on the "Bay of Stinkards," or Rather "Of Stinking Waters"




On the Hunting of the Gaspesians




The Hunting of Moose, of Bears, of Beavers, of Lynxes, and other animals according to their seasons




Tarrentines and the Introduction of European Trade Goods in the Gulf of Maine




The Anishinabeg Point of View: The History of the Great Lakes Region to 1800 in Nineteenth-Century Mississauga, Odawa, and Ojibwa Historiography




Fur Trade Literature from a Tribal Point of View: A Critique




The Social and Political Significance of Exchange Introduction



Agriculture and the Fur Trade




"Give Us a Little Milk": The Social and Cultural Significance of Gift Giving in die Lake Superior Fur Trade




"Starving" and Survival in the Subarctic Fur Trade: A Case for Contextual Semantics




The Growth and Economic Significance of the American Fur Trade, 1790-1890




"Red" Labor: Iroquois Participation in the Atlantic Economy




The Fur Trade and Eighteenth-Century Imperialism




The Middle Ground




Creative Misunderstandings and New Understandings




Cloth Trade Introduction



Indians as Consumers in the Eighteenth Century




Dressing for Success on the Mohawk Frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian Fashion




The Flow of European Trade Goods into the Western Great Lakes Region, 1715-1760




The Matchcoat




Chiefs Coats Supplied by the American Fur Company




The Myth of the Silk Hat and the End of the Rendezvous




Gender, Kinship, and Community Introduction



Women, Kin, and Catholicism: New Perspectives on the Fur Trade




"The Custom of the Country": An Examination of Fur Trade Marriage Practices




Woman as Centre and Symbol in the Emergence of Metis Communities




Prelude to Red River: A Social Portrait of the Great Lakes Mï¿½tis




The Glaize in 1792: A Composite Indian Community




Festivities, Fortitude, and Fraternalism: Fur Trade Masculinity and the Beaver Club, 1785-1827



Index