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Finalist for the Wildrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction at the 2017 Alberta Literary Awards!

The long rivalry between the Hudson''s Bay Company and the North West Company for control of the fur trade in Canada''s northwest came to an explosive climax on June 19th, 1816, at the so-called Battle of Seven Oaks. Armed buffalo hunters-Indigenous allies of the Nor-Westers-confronted armed colonists of the HBC''s Selkirk settlement near the forks of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers in today''s Winnipeg. This battle would prove to be a formative event for Mtis self-determination as well as laying down a legacy for settlers to come.

The Seven Oaks Reader offers a comprehensive retelling of one of Canada''s most interesting historical periods, the Fur Trade Wars. As in the companion volume, The Frog Lake Reader, Kostash incorporates period accounts and journals, histories, memoirs, songs and fictional retellings, from a wide range of sources, offering readers an engaging and exciting way back into still-controversial historical events.

Seven Oaks Reader

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      Publisher NeWest Press
      Published 1 April 2016
      ISBN-13 9781926455532
      978-1926455532
      ISBN-10 1926455533
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      Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Finalist for the Wildrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction at the 2017 Alberta Literary Awards!

      The long rivalry between the Hudson''s Bay Company and the North West Company for control of the fur trade in Canada''s northwest came to an explosive climax on June 19th, 1816, at the so-called Battle of Seven Oaks. Armed buffalo hunters-Indigenous allies of the Nor-Westers-confronted armed colonists of the HBC''s Selkirk settlement near the forks of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers in today''s Winnipeg. This battle would prove to be a formative event for Mtis self-determination as well as laying down a legacy for settlers to come.

      The Seven Oaks Reader offers a comprehensive retelling of one of Canada''s most interesting historical periods, the Fur Trade Wars. As in the companion volume, The Frog Lake Reader, Kostash incorporates period accounts and journals, histories, memoirs, songs and fictional retellings, from a wide range of sources, offering readers an engaging and exciting way back into still-controversial historical events.

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