
The Subarctic Fur Trade
Native Social and Economic Adaptions
Shepard Krech(Editor)
University of British Columbia Press
Published on 1. January 1984
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-7748-0186-7 (ISBN)
Description
The papers in this book focus on several themes: the identification of Indian motives; the degree to which Indians were discriminating consumers and creative participants; and the extent of the native dependency on the trade. It spans the period from the seventeenth century up to and including the twentieth century. In one of the key essays, Arthur J. Ray questions the theory that modern native welfare societies are of recent origin, and traces their roots to the early fur trade. Papers by Charles A. Bishop, Toby Morantz and Carol Judd focus on the North Algonquians in the eastern subarctic and earlier centuries of the trade, while two final essays by Shepard Krech, and Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach shift the focus to the North Athapascans in the western subarctic.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Vancouver
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Illustrations
Illustrations, maps
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
804 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7748-0186-7 (9780774801867)
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Content
Periodic shortages, native welfare and the Hudson's Bay Company 1670--1930 Arthur J. Ray ; The first century: adaptive changes among Western James Bay Cree between the early seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries Charles A. Bishop ; Economic and social accommodations of the James Bay Inlanders to the fur trade Toby Morantz ; Sakie, Esquawenoe and the foundation of the dual-native tradition at Moose Factory Carol M.