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Aboriginal Labour in the North-West
Ron Bourgeault Prairie Forum, Vol. 31, No. 2, Fall, 2006, pp. 273-304. Explores the historical background of the Aboriginal labour force prior to Saskatchewan forming a province in 1905. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Advancement of Knowledge in La Pérouse's 1782 Expedition to Hudson Bay
Denis Combet, Constance Cartmill Manitoba History, No. 59, October 2008, pp. 25-33. Looks at the 1782 expedition of Count Jean François de la Pérouse, his leadership of the mission, encounters with Indigenous Peoples, and observations made by the crew. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
After the Fur Trade: the Aboriginal Labouring Class of British Columbia 1849-1890
John Lutz Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1992, pp. 69-93. Argues that Aboriginal people played a significant role in the economic development of British Columbia. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
An Alliance between Men: Gender Metaphors in Eighteenth-Century American Indian Diplomacy East of the Mississippi
Nancy Shoemaker Ethnohistory, Vol. 46, No. 2, Spring, 1999, pp. 239-263. Use of gender-related ideas in trade and diplomatic relations. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
'Animated like Us by Commercial Interests': Commercial Ethnology and Fur Trade Descriptions in New France, 1660-1760
George Colpitts Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 83, No. 3, 2002, p. 305. Examines business interests, particularly trade with the French. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Archeological Exploration of Patawomeke: The Indian Town Site (44St2) Ancestral to the One (44St1) Visited in 1608 by Captain John Smith
T. Dale Stewart Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, Vol. 36, November 27, 1992, pp. i-96. Investigates a village of circular and elongate houses, storage pits, and three mass graves all of which date to pre-Contact times. Two burial pits contained European trade items, showing use of the site during post-Contact times. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Arctic Development and Historical Analysis: The Use of Historical Methodology in Addressing Current Issues in the Arctic
Vasiliki Kravariotis Douglas International Journal of Circumpolar Health, Vol. 67, No. 2-3, June 2008, pp. 213-225. Argues that historical analysis provides a means to tracing epistemological change over time. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Baptizing Novices: Ritual Moments among French Canadian Voyageurs in the Montreal Fur Trade, 1780-1821
Carolyn Podruchny Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 83, No. 2, June 2002, p. 165. Discusses initiation rites for fur traders. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Barter, Blankets, and Bracelets: The Role of the Trader in the Navajo Textile and SIlverwork Industries, 1868-1930
Robert W. Volk American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4, 1988, pp. 39-63. Analysis of the Navajo economy, focusing on the middleman activities of the traders in relation to the Navajo crafts industry. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Battle at Fort Edmonton: Fur Traders Under Siege
Hugh A. Dempsey Alberta History, Vol. 59, No. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 12-17. Looks at an 1826 battle between horse thieves and fur traders ending with six fewer horse thieves. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Beads, Wampum, Money, Words—and Old English Riddles
Carter Revard American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1999, pp. 177-189. Argues that Wampum was a historical record, containing matters that were held sacred, but when first encountered by Europeans, because it was held with such respect, Wampum was assumed by the Europeans to be money. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Beggars, Chickabobbooags, and Prisons: Paxoche (Ioway) Views of English Society, 1844-45
Winona Stevenson American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 17, No. 4, 1993, pp. 1-23. Reconstructs Paxoche (Ioway) perceptions of England’s socioeconomic system, laws, and judiciary. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Beginning and the End: Lewis and Clark among the Upper Missouri River People
Clarissa Confer Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 11-19. Examines how the first contact between the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804 to the upper Missouri River region affected Native Americans. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
"The Bewitching Tyranny of Custom": The Social Costs of Indian Drinking in Colonial America
Peter C. Mancall American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1993, pp. 15-42 . Explains how the liquor trade, even though it was destroying the health of Native Americans, remained a staple of Indigenous-colonist trade in the American hinterland. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Buffalo Hunt on the CPR in 1883
Alberta History, Vol. 50, No. 3, Summer, 2002, pp. 26-27. Describes a train ride from Medicine Hat to Calgary and first appeared in the British Newspaper The Canadian Gazette on September 20, 1883. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Cartographic Factor in Indian Land Tenure: Some Examples from Southern California
Imre Sutton American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1988, pp. 53-80. Studies how maps have played a role in clarifying and evaluating Native American land tenure. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Castoreum and Steel Traps in Eastern North America
Robin F. Wells American Anthropologist, Vol. 74, No. 3, New Series, June 1972, pp. 479-483. Argues that contrary to what is generally accepted, the practise of trapping beaver using this method was in use long before the 1790s, but came into use in the Northeast Indians at that time as First Nations tried to compensate for the lower price of pelts by increasing the number they traded. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Categories and Terrains of Exclusion: Constructing the "Indian Woman" in the Early Settlement Era in Western Canada
Sarah Carter Great Plains Quarterly, Summer, 1993, pp. 147-161. Provides a perspective on how Aboriginal women were viewed during the settlement period in 1884 in Alberta. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Catholic Clergy and the Fur Trade 1585-1685
Cornelius J. Jaenen Journal of the Canadian Historical Association: Historical Papers, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1970, pp. 60-80. Examines missionary work and the possibility that the clergy were clandestinely involved in the fur trade to help finance their missions. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Changes to the Native Economy of Northern Manitoba in the Post-Treaty Period: 1870-1900
Frank Tough Native Studies Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1984, pp. 40-66. Argues that the changes during this period were largely a result of transitioning from the fur trade, to an economy that was more diversified and commercialized. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Colonial Categories and Familial Responses to Treaty and Metis Scrip Policy: The 'Edmonton and District Stragglers,' 1870–88
Melanie Niemi-Bohun Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 90, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 71-98. Looks at how Métis women and their families in Western Canada withdrew from Treaty Six to participate in the scrip program in order to gain economical benefits. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Colonization and the Decline of Women's Status: The Tsimshian Case
Jo-Anne Fiske Feminist Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, Fall, 1991, pp. 509-[?]. Examines how the fur trade altered gender relations and enhanced the position of males relative to females. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Commerce de Fourrures et Competition a Betsiamites de 1850 a 1880
Jacques Frenette The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1987, pp. 41-56. (Abstract in French and English, article in French) Examines how the Montagnais benefitted from competition between the Hudson's Bay Company and independent fur traders in this region and the methods employed by the Company while trying to control the market. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Cost of Early Canada's Native Alliances: Reality and Scarcity's Rhetoric
Catherine M. Desbarats William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 4, 3rd series, October 1995, pp. 609-630. Discusses the mutually beneficial relationship between the French and First Nations, including Abenakis, Mi'kmaq and others, during early history. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Cowry Shells from Archaeological Sites in Ontario
W. J. Wintemberg American Anthropologist, Vol. 26, No. 1, New Series, January-March 1924, pp. 119-120. Brief discussion of artifacts used in trade found at mound site near Peterborough More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites |
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