Description
Book SynopsisLucrative, far-reaching, and complex, the fur trade bound together Europeans and Native peoples of North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Rethinking the Fur Trade offers a nuanced look at the broad range of contracts that characterized the fur trade, a phenomenon that has often been oversimplified and misrepresented.
Trade Review"
Rethinking the Fur Trade is an invaluable book."—Claiborne A. Skinner,
Annals of Iowa"
Rethinking the Fur Trade is a welcome and valuable addition. . . . It succeeds in giving multiple perspectives on the cultures of exchange and the fur trade for a wide audience."—Chris Johnson,
North Dakota HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
List of Tables
Source Acknowledgments
Introduction: Cultures of Exchange in a North Atlantic World
Part 1. Indigenous Perspectives
Introduction
1. Of the Mission of Saint Francois Xavier on the "Bay of Stinkards," or Rather "Of Stinking Waters"
Father Allouez
2. On the Hunting of the Gaspesians
Father Chrestien LeClercq
3. The Hunting of Moose, of Bears, of Beavers, of Lynxes, and Other Animals According to Their Seasons
Father Chrestien LeClercq
4. Tarrentines and the Introduction of European Trade Goods in the Gulf of Maine
Bruce J. Bourque and Ruth Holmes Whitehead
5. The Anishinabeg Point of View: The History of the Great Lakes Region to 1800 in Nineteenth-Century Mississauga, Odawa, and Obijwa Historiography
D. Peter MacLeod
6. Fur Trade Literature from a Tribal Point of View: A Critique
Donald F. Bibeau
Part 2. The Social and Political Significance of Exchange
Introduction
7. Agriculture and the Fur Trade
D. W. Moodie
8. "Give Us a Little Milk": The Social and Cultural Significance of Gift Giving in the Lake Superior Fur Trade
Bruce M. White
9. "Starving" and Survival in the Subartic Fur Trade: A Case for Contextual Semantics
Mary Black-Rogers
10. The Growth and Economic Significance of the American Fur Trade, 17901890
James L. Clayton
11. "Red" Labor: Iroquois Participation in the Atlantic Economy
Gail D. MacLeitch
12. The Fur Trade and Eighteenth-Century Imperialism
W. J. Eccles
13. The Middle Ground
Richard White
14. Creative Misunderstandings and New Understandings
Richard White
Part 3. Cloth Trade
Introduction
15. Indians as Consumers in the Eighteenth Century
Arthur J. Ray
16. Dressing for Success on the Mohawk Frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian Fashion
Timothy J. Shannon
17. The Flow of European Trade Goods into the Western Great Lakes Region, 17151760
Dean L. Anderson
18. The Matchcoat
Gail DeBuse Potter
19. Chiefs Coats Supplied by the American Fur Company
Allen Chronister
20. The Myth of the Silk Hat and the End of the Rendezvous
James A. Hanson
Part 4. Gender, Kinship, and Community
Introduction
21. Women, Kin, and Catholicism: New Perspectives on the Fur Trade
Susan Sleeper-Smith
22. "The Custom of the Country": An Examination of Fur Trade Marriage Practices
Sylvia Van Kirk
23. Woman as Centre and Symbol in the Emergence of Metis Communities
Jennifer S. H. Brown
24. Prelude to Red River: A Social Portrait of the Great Lakes Métis
Jacqueline Peterson
25. The Glaize in 1792: A Composite Indian Community
Helen Hornbeck Tanner
26. Festivities, Fortitude, and Fraternalism: Fur Trade Masculinity and the Beaver Club, 17851827
Carolyn Podruchny
Index
