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Indians in the fur trade : their role as trappers, hunters, and middlemen in the lands southwest of Hudson Bay, 1660-1870 Cover Image Book Book

Indians in the fur trade : their role as trappers, hunters, and middlemen in the lands southwest of Hudson Bay, 1660-1870

Ray, Arthur J. 1941- (Author).

Summary: First published in 1974, this best-selling book was lauded by Choice as 'an important, ground-breaking study of the Assiniboine and western Cree Indians who inhabited southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan' and 'essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the Canadian west before 1870.' Indians in the Fur Trade makes extensive use of previously unpublished Hudson's Bay Company archival materials and other available data to reconstruct the cultural geography of the West at the time of early contact, illustrating many of the rapid cultural transformations with maps and diagrams. Now with a new introduction and an update on sources, it will continue to be of great use to students and scholars of Native and Canadian history. --

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  • ISBN: 0802041337 (bound)
  • ISBN: 9780802041333 (bound)
  • ISBN: 9780802079800 (pbk)
  • Physical Description: xxxiv, 249 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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  • Publisher: Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, c1998, 1974.

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General Note:
"With a new introduction" -- T.p. verso.
Reprinted 2014.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Illustrations -- Introduction to the 1998 edition: reflections on Indians in the fur trade -- Preface to the 1974 edition -- 1. Trade rivalries, inter-tribal warfare, and migration -- 2. Land and life in the western interior before 1763 -- 3. Traders and middlemen -- 4. Arms, brandy, beads, and sundries -- 5. Migrations, epidemics, and population changes, 1763-1821 -- 6. The destruction of fur and game animals -- 7. New economic opportunities -- 8. Economic dependency and the fur trade: contrasting trends -- 9. Land and life: a changing mosaic -- 10. The changing demographic picture after 1821 - 11. Declining opportunities in a changing fur trade -- 12. End of a way of life -- Select bibliography for the 1974 edition -- Index.

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  • 3 of 3 copies available at Nicola Valley Institute of Technology.

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Merritt Campus E78 C2 R4 1998 (Text) 111272 Regular Collection Volume hold Available -
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