Fur Trade & Exploration
Some Notes on the Manufacture of Wampum Prior to 1654
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James D. Burggraf
American Antiquity, vol. 4, no. 1, July 1938, pp. 53-58
Description
Long Island excavations in the 1930's indicate that most wampum was produced less than 350 years ago. Methods and materials for making white and black wampum are discussed.
Souris River Posts: Including David Thompson's Diary of His Historical Trip across the Souris Plains to the Mandan Villages in the Winter of 1797-98
Alternate Title
Souris River Posts and David Thompson's Diary ...
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
G. A. McMorran
David Thompson
Description
Summarizes the trading days along the Souris River and comments on the posts that operated for varying lengths of time above the mouth of the Souris.
Sovereignty, Treaties and Trade in the Bkejwanong Territory
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David T. McNabb
The Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 3, no. 2, Fall, 2003, pp. 52-66
Description
Discusses the trading patterns and historical events which led to negotiations for various treaties among the French, English and various First Nations in pre-1867 Canada.
Special History: The Environment and the Fur Trade Experience in Voyageurs National Park, 1730-1870
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Theodore Catton
Marcia Montgomery
Description
Study based on historical literature and selective reading of primary source material specific to the region conducted for the purpose of guiding management and interpretation of the Park.
Speculative States: Citizenship Criteria, Human Rights, and Decolonial Legal Norms in Gerald Vizenor’s The Heirs of Columbus
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrew Uzendoski
Extrapolation, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 21-50
Description
Critical paper which uses international Human Rights Law to examine the legal arguments made by Vizenor in his 1991 novel; discusses the relationship between Indigenous speculative fictions (SF) and international law at the end of the twentieth century.
The Spread of Firearms among the Indian Tribes on the Northern Frontier of New Spain
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas Frank Schilz
Donald E. Worcester
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 1, Winter, 1987, pp. 1-10
Description
Looks at the impact of firearms to Indigenous nations in the Spanish America frontier. Spanish policy prohibited the trading of firearms to Indigenous people but Indigenous tribes obtained firearms from French or British allies instead..
The Staff of Life: Wheat and 'Indian Bread' in the New World
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Luis Millones Figueroa
Colonial Latin American Review, vol. 19, no. 2, August 2010, pp. 301-322
Description
Uses the example of wheat to illustrate the challenges of transporting and adapting European culture to life in the Americas.
Stanley Hudson's Bay Post
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Christina Bateman (photographer)
Description
Photograph of buildings, including teepee at Stanley Hudson's Bay post from across lake. Also visible is a man and canoes on the shore. Trip of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay to La Ronge, 1919.
The State and the Northern Social Economy: Research Prospects
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frances Abele
Northern Review, no. 30, Spring, 2009, pp. 37-56
Description
Describes an approach to understanding the northern social economy in regards to the changes in the role of government in the northern economy.
Stó:lō Exchange Dynamics
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Keith Thor Carlson
Native Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 1, Native People in British Columbia: Recent Research, 1996, p. 5–48
Description
Looks at a wide array of economic activities that took place from the pre-contact era to present times.
The Stock Cove Site: A Large Dorset Seal-Hunting Encampment on the Coast of Southeastern Newfoundland
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher B. Wolff
Donald H. Holly Jr.
John C. Erwin
Tatiana Nomokonova
Lindsay Swinarton
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 56, no. 1, 2019, pp. 77-95
Description
Authors discuss artifacts and data collected from the Stock Cove site (CkAl-3); consider the implications—both historic and contemporary--of finding harp seal remains at the site. Additionally, offers some commentary as to the appropriateness of using historical biogeographic data to interpret pre-contact economies.
Stones in the Snow: A Norse Fur Traders' Road into Sami Country
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ingela Bergman
Lars Östlund
Olle Zackrisson
Lars Liedgren
Antiquity, vol. 81, no. 312, 2007, pp. 397-408
Description
Archaeological survey of trail marked by standing stones at regular intervals in the mountains between Norway and Sweden. Concludes road was built by Norse chieftan.
Stories of Indian Days: O-ge-mas-es Relates Many Incidents Of Early Life in the West.
Alternate Title
From the Diary of a Hudson’s Bay Clerk in the Seventies
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Reginald Beatty
Chris Willmore
Description
Compilation, edited and annotated, mainly consisting of newspaper articles published between 1920 and 1921. Text in bold, footnotes and words in square brackets are the editor's.
The Story of the Ahenakews
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Edward Ahenakew
Saskatchewan History, vol. 17, no. 1, Winter, 1964, pp. 12-23
Description
Draws on notes and a manuscript written by the Reverend Canon Edward Ahenakews to piece together a series of memoirs and narratives about the Ahenakew family, their relations, and historical events and characters of the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 12.
'A Strange Revolution in the Manners of the Country': Aboriginal-Settler Intermarriage in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia
Alternate Title
Law and Society Series ;
Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jay Nelson
Law and Society Series
Description
Considers several factors affecting intermarriage: geography, law, morality, race and sexuality.
Chapter 1 from Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law edited by John P. S. McLaren, Robert Menzies, Dorothy E. Chunn.
Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Abraham Rosman
Paula G. Rubel
Man, vol. 25, no. 4, December 1990, pp. 620-639
Description
Shows that the stylistic and representational contrasts in art correspond with the division of the Kwakiutl year based on notions of secular and sacred.