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Arctic Origin and Domestic Development of Chinook Jargon
Looks at characteristics of the population that would have found the mixed language useful and how it developed through marriages between traders and Indigenous women.
Chapter from: Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages edited by Ernst Håkon Jahr and Ingvild Broch
Between Doorstep Barter Economy and Industrial Wages: Mobility and Adaptability of Coast Salish Female Laborers in Coastal British Columbia 1858-1890
Chapter Three: The Northwest Fur Trade
"Colonial Genocide and Historical Trauma in Native North America: Complicating Contemporary Attributions."
Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade
Chapters one and two from the book. Note: Many tables are missing.
From Tent to Trading Post and Back Again: Smithsonian Anthropology in Nunavut, Nunavik, Nitassinan, and Nunatsiavut - The Changing IPY Agenda, 1882-2007
From the Minnetarees to the Shoshonees
The Fur Trade
Intended for use in Grade 7 Social Studies classes.
Chapter from Our Canada: Origins, Peoples, Perspectives by David Rees, Darrell Anderson Gerrits, and Gratien Allaire.
Goodbye, Columbus: Take Two
Compares the treatment of the "discovery" of North America in two children's books: Encounter by Jane Yolen and A Coyote Columbus Story by Thomas King.
Excerpt from A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children edited by Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin.