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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
"As Their Natural Resources Fail": Native Peoples and the Economic History of Northern Manitoba, 1870-1930
As Their Natural Resources Fail: Native Peoples and the Economic History of Northern Manitoba, 1870-1930
Battleford and Medicine Hat - Newspaper clipping - 9 May 1885.
"Beatty, Reginald Bird-Diary & Correspondence"
Bitter Feast: Amerindians and Europeans in Northeastern North America, 1600-64
The Canadian North-West: Its History and Its Troubles from the Early Day of the Fur-Trade to the Era of the Railway and the Settler: With Incidents of Travel in the Region, and the Narrative of Three Insurrections
Chiefs & Change in the Oregon Country: Indian Relations at Fort Nez Perces, 1818-1855 Volume II
Civilized, Roughly: Gender, Race, and the politics of Leisure in Colonial British Columbia, 1860-1871
Cold Comfort: My Love Affair With the Arctic
Conquest and Recovery in Early Writings from America
The De Soto Chronicles: The Expeditions of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543
Early European Interaction With Aboriginal Hunters and Gatherers on Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Fort Carlton, 1885
Friends, Foes, and Furs : George Nelson's Lake Winnipeg Journals, 1804-1822
From Savagery to Civilization: The Canadian North-West: Its History and Its Troubles from the Early Days ... and the Narrative of Three Insurrections
From Talking Chiefs to a Native Corporate Élite: The Birth of Class and Nationalism among Canadian Inuit
Fur Trader Game
For use with the article The Business That Created a Country found on p. 6 of the special issue "How Furs Built Canada" in Kayak: Canada's History Magazine for Kids. Suitable for Grades1 to 5.
Here First
High Slack: Waddington's Gold Road and the Bute Inlet Massacre of 1864
History of the Ojibway Nation
Homeland to Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the Nineteenth Century
[Hudson's Bay Company Archive Digitized Microfilm]
Contains links to over 10,000 volumes of the pre-1870 records from almost 500 Hudson's Bay Company posts, including post journals, incoming and outgoing correspondence and accounts, and records kept at districts and departments overseeing the post activity which include lists of servants, accounts, reports, engagement registers, abstracts of servants’ accounts and minutes of council.
In Search of the Never-Never: Mickey Dewar: Champion of History across Many Genres
Indians and Other Americans at Center Stage
Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Labour in British Columbia, 1858-1930
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada: Teacher's Kit for Giant Floor Map
Topics include climate change, demographics, Indigenous governance, housing, human rights, Indigenous languages, migration, famous people, original place names, residential schools, seasonal cycles, symbols, timeline, trade routes, and treaties, land disputes, agreements and rights.
Although activities were created for the giant floor map, they can be adapted to the printable tile version.
"Inspector Dickens Journal" Fort Pitt, 1885.
Historical note:
Interior of Fort Pitt, Just [Before] the Rebellion of 1885
Introduction: Native Peoples in British Columbia
The Last Buffalo Hunter
Late Dorset Deposits at Iita: Site Formation and Site Destruction in Northwestern Greenland
Law Transplanted, Justice Invented: Sources of Law for the Hudson's Bay Company in Rupert's Land, 1670-1870
Lesson Plan: Fur Trade Timeline
Designed for Grades 3-8. Information from the article Fur Trade Times in the special issue of Kayak magazine How Furs Built Canada. Students play a class game of "I Have ... Who Has?"