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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Fur Trade"”.
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Trappers and Traders in the Keewatin: The Fur Trade as an Agent of Acculturation
… enterprise in Hudson's Bay, the organized Fur Trade established and consolidated an extensive trade network. This corporate presence had a number of direct and indirect repercussions for the Inuit of the Keewatin, the inhabitants of that area on the western shore of the Bay. Accompanying …
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Household Organization in the Fur Trade Era: Socioeconomic and Spatial Organizations of Housepit 54
… records as well as indigenous life during the Fur Trade Era, while also contributing to an enhanced understanding of household relationships.
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Household Organization in the Fur Trade Era: Socioeconomic and Spatial Organizations of Housepit 54
… records as well as indigenous life during the Fur Trade Era, while also contributing to an enhanced understanding of household relationships.
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Technological Adaptation on the Frontier: An Examination of Blacksmithing at Fort Michilimackinac, 1715-1781
… blacksmith and his work within the 18th century fur trade community at Fort Michilimackinac (1715-1781). Located at the northern tip of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, this fortified trading post was important to the French (1715-1760) and British (1761-1781) fur trade economies in North …
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Inventing "crime" in a lawless land: legal conflict, racial formation, and conquest in the North American interior
… who were usually associated in some way with the fur trade, and indigenous peoples of the continental interior north and west of Lake Superior. It examines the period between the fall of New France in 1763 and the invasion of the Canadian and American settler states in this area around 1850. It …
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More than a Fort: Métis Archaeology at pehonanik (FfNp-1)
… before the development of the Western Canadian fur trade. From 1810 to 1885, Fort Carlton (FfNp-1) was established and operational in the pehonanik area along the North Saskatchewan River, approximately 100 kilometers north of Saskatoon. While the goal of this thesis was to identify Métis …
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To the Ends of the Earth: A Study of the Explorative Discourse Promoting British Expansionism in Canada
… America. Many of those explorers worked for two fur-trading companies: the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company. In pursuit of new sources of fur, they opened western Canada to European comprehension. Their published accounts of geographic exploration provided the British audience with …
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The French and Indian Wars: New France's Situational Indian Policies During the Fox and Natchez Conflicts, 1701-1732
… a French Indian policy that was dominated by the fur trade and illustrated by the outbreak of the Fox Wars in 1712. However, New France's Indian policy was not always dictated by the vast and powerful fur trade. Once the French reached the Gulf of Mexico and began settling in the Deep South, …
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The Hudson’s Bay Company on the Pacific, 1821-1843
… to two markets (London and Canton). This fur trade appeared at first so unpromising that the Hudson's Bay Company considered abandoning the lower Columbia region in 1821. Instead of doing so, between 1821 and 1843, the Hudson's Bay Company consolidated its operations in the Columbia …
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8maw8gan: Zooarchaeology of Changing W8banaki Fishing Practices at Fort Odanak on Alsig8ntegw
… practices at Fort Odanak were geared toward the fur trade and fishing. Many fish taxa were obtained, but the brown bullhead, channel catfish and Catostomidae species were the focus of most fishing activities. Size reconstruction shows the use of line and basket fishing to capture small fish, …
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If Rocks Could Talk: Using Central Place Foraging Theory in Lithic Production and Utilization Research
… microeconomic decision making during the Fur-Trade Occupation at Housepit 54 of the Bridge River Site. Specifically, it addresses the lithic production in regard to field processing and technological investment at the site. Field processing considers the importance of cost in transporting …
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If Rocks Could Talk: Using Central Place Foraging Theory in Lithic Production and Utilization Research
… microeconomic decision making during the Fur-Trade Occupation at Housepit 54 of the Bridge River Site. Specifically, it addresses the lithic production in regard to field processing and technological investment at the site. Field processing considers the importance of cost in transporting …
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Ethnic identity amongst the mixed-bloods of the Great Lakes Region, 1760-1830
… mixed-blood population specialized in the fur trade and Indian affairs. This group did not develop a shared sense of ethnic consciousness during this period. A preference for exogamous mating patterns hindered their ability to form a culturally self-sustaining group. "Marital" alliances …
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Small Robe Band of Blackfeet: Ethnogenesis by Social and Religious Transformation
… that took place from the beginning of the fur trade era through the reservation era. Through the theoretical lens of ethnogenesis I use a case study of the Small Robe (Inuck’siks) band of the South Piegan of Montana to elucidate their responses to conditions of change. I conclude that all …
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Small Robe Band of Blackfeet: Ethnogenesis by Social and Religious Transformation
… that took place from the beginning of the fur trade era through the reservation era. Through the theoretical lens of ethnogenesis I use a case study of the Small Robe (Inuck’siks) band of the South Piegan of Montana to elucidate their responses to conditions of change. I conclude that all …
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The Rise and Fall of the Minnesota Middle Ground: Henry Hastings Sibley and the Ethnic Cleansing of Minnesota
Henry Hastings Sibley (1811-1891), fur trader and eventual first governor of Minnesota, worked closely among the sub-division of “Sioux” Indians known as the Dakota. Sibley first aided in the development of what historian Richard White called a “Middle Ground,” a racially mixed and symbiotic …
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The Impact Of The Indian Act On Indigenous Women's Voices: Rereading Sex-Based Discrimination Case Law Against Indigenous Feminist Theatre Movement Literature
… of Strength Of Indian Women and Women Of The Fur Trade are read alongside the cases to contrast the ways in which women's lives are represented and understood in each. This juxtaposition reveals how Indigenous women's challenges to sex-based discrimination have historically been stifled. …
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The 18th century western Cree and their neighbours : identity and territory
… 1690 as a result of the introduction of the fur trade. This view, seemingly supported by nineteenth century authorities, has its only source in several brief ambiguous statements published in 1801 by Alexander Mackenzie. The western limits of the Cree and Assiniboin in the early 1700s remain …
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A Métis wife's tale: Race, womanhood, and adaptation to settler colonialism in the diaries of Mary Hobart Williams
… communities of mixed ancestry produced by the fur trade: the Great Lakes Metis. This project looks at the ways the Metis of Green Bay adapted to the pressures of settler colonialism through the nineteenth century. In particular, it uses the diaries of a French-Menominee woman named Mary Hobart …
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