Explores three projects of governance (civilization, protection, assimilation) that are embodied in industrial schools, and looks at the founding of the earliest industrials schools, information that is located in government and mission archives.
Focuses on the encounter between Christianity and indigenous religions.
Chapter from Historical Papers 1994: Canadian Society of Church History edited by Bruce L. Guenther.
The Journal of Economic History, vol. 61, no. 4, December 2001, pp. 1037-1064
Description
Argues that Indigenous peoples bought more European goods from the Hudson's Bay Company post as fur prices went up, and also increased trapping for trade purposes.