Fur Trade & Exploration

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Calgary, 2001.

Describes trade network of the Cree peoples with the Hudson's Bay Company, the supply of fur bearing animals, and how the Cree economy declined.

Discovering Indigenous Lands by Robert J. Miller, Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt, and Tracey Lindberg.

Book review of Discovering Indigenous Lands by Robert J. Miller, Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt, and Tracey Lindberg. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 167.

A "hyperhistory in progress," with at least one interpretive episode added each month. Includes journal excerpts, First Nations history, natural history and geography. Includes Journal excerpts from The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Discusses the devastating effects colonial disease had on Native harmony with nature and the revival of tribal memory of medicine to survive.

Explores to what limited extent Russian colonizers supplied Alaskan Natives with alcohol.

Book review of: Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters & Social Imagination by Julie Cruikshank.

Discusses the history and the impacts of the Doctrine of Discovery. Duration: 30:56.

Identifies sources and methods for documenting Métis during the fur trade period in Ontario in order to investigate legal and historical questions related to contemporary rights of Métis in that province.

Consists of an interview with non-Indian employed at the Gabriel Dumont Institute in Regina. At the time of the interview he was writing a book on the history of the Metis nation.

Book review of: Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land, Revised edition by Donald Thomson. Review located by scrolling to page 150.

Dr. Alice Kehoe drawing a soil profile from beside a chimney at the Francois-Finlay Post excavation near Nipawin, SK in 1964.

Historical note:

The Francois-Finlay Post was the first "pedlar" post on the Saskatchewan River was a combined effort of François Le Blanc, a veteran of the La Vérendrye family's 1740's expeditions, and James Finlay, a Scottish-born businessman. Located just about 150 kilometres east of Prince Albert, below Finlay's Falls near present-day Nipawin, Saskatchewan, the stockaded post was the focus of 20th century archeological excavations.

A series of field notes on several historical fur trade forts (mainly from Manitoba and southern Saskatchewan), and the Thunder Bird Stone at Kamsack, SK. Included are Glasgow (Albany) House, Alexandria Fort, Carlton House (original), Marlboro House, Fort Hibernia, Fort Alexandria.

Various historical notes on the Carlton Trail composed by Dr. Ralph Russell. Includes discussion of the trail itself, posts along it, and prominent persons connected with it (such as John Palliser and Gabriel Dumont).

Notes (seemingly handwritten copies of an original document) on Captain John Palliser's Winter Trip from Fort Union to White Earth River in January 1848.

Website includes discussion and links to exhibit of 748 gallery items from American illustrator James E. Taylor, a professional artist known for his newspaper illustrations created during the post-Civil War years in the United States.

Discusses differences between Western and Indigenous understandings of what maps are, how they are made, how they look and what they do using two examples: one a drawing of north-eastern Siberia by a Chukchi man, the other by Sami of Lapland using marks on a drum in conjunction with Shamanistic performances as a means of mapping physical, spiritual and temporal elements of the environment.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 1987.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Montana, 2011.

Description of various forts, posts, trade relations and trading companies found in the area.

Comments on the knowledge European settlers obtained from Aboriginal people and their landscape.

A comparison of the characteristics of French and Dutch traders prior to 1645.

Book review of: Early Fur Trade on the Northern Plains edited by Raymond W. Wood and Thomas D. Thiessen.

Explains different wampum diplomacy, use as personal ornamentation and in ceremonial objects.

Argues that the "optimum period" for the Cree of James Bay was when limited contact kept their way of life intact and that this period ended in 1914 when the area become less isolated because of the railway and other economic interests.

Comments on the effects of the fur trade on Native American Women.

Economics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2002.

Investigates several prominent themes advanced by European settlers about New Zealand Māori.

Introduction to special issue.

Introduces a variety of articles examining colonial encounters in British Columbia.

Commentary gives a report on the past and current social and political situations for the Indigenous peoples in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. To access this article scroll down to page 2.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Northern British Columbia, 2005.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington State University, 1997.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Arizona, 1997.

Presents the lives and journeys of Mikak and her son Tutauk, Attuiock, Ickongoque, Ickeuna, Tooklavinia and Caubvick, and looks at the roles they played in Britain’s expansion along the northeastern seaboard of Canada.

Book review of: Eighteenth-Century Western Cree and Their Neighbours by Dale R. Russell.

Explorer's journals provide the most detailed known account of practices as they existed before the introduction of Christianity.

Consists of an interview where she tells of a frightening trip through the woods as a child.

Consists of an interview with Eliza Kneller where she describes the smallpox epidemic following World War I. She gives a description of basket making, an account of life in a Catholic school in Chicago and an account of New Year's celebrations amongst children.