American Anthropologist, vol. 74, no. 3, New Series, June 1972, pp. 479-483
Description
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.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4, Fall, 2016, pp. 259-280
Description
Uses material culture and paleobotanical evidence to assess the chronological development of the Wichita society living in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas from 1450 to the 1800s.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 3, no. 1, 2016, pp. 46-74
Description
"This article demonstrates that Canada's political claims to ownership over the North-West lay in problematic claims of sovereignty made by British and Canadian explorers, politicians, and businessmen, using language of discovery and sovereignty to obscure Indigenous governance already in practice".
Canada's History, vol. 96, no. 4, August/September 2016, pp. 63-64
Description
Describes the contributions of the various First Nations of British Columbia who worked as trappers, cooks, packers, guides and postal carriers in the mid 1800s.
Canadian Journal of History, vol. 51, no. 1, Spring-Summer, 2016, pp. 1-32
Description
"This article argues that both these long-standing perceptions of Mohawks as men possessing superior skills as woodsmen and imbued with a fierce character informed the Montreal-area hiring practices of large fur trade concerns."
Book review of Indigenous Intermediaries edited by Shino Konishi, Maria Nugent Shino and Tiffany Shellam; and Brokers & Boundaries edited by Tiffany Shellam, Maria Nugent, Shino Konishi and Allison Cadzow.
Alberta History, vol. 64, no. 4, Autumn, 2016, pp. 15-22
Description
Accounts from a member of the Canadian International Boundary Commission published in the In the Days of Pioneering: Crossing the Plains in the Early 70s.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4, Fall, 2016, pp. 281-308
Description
Presents history of the Garrison Dam and the resulting reservoir, Lake Sakakawea named after a Shoshone women that was a translator for Lewis and Clarke expedition.
Ethnohistory, vol. 63, no. 3, July 2016, pp. 519-540
Description
Looks at the Battle of Seven Oaks between a coalition of Métis and North West Company forces and a party of Scottish settlers and Hudson's Bay Company personnel.