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Gathering places : Aboriginal and fur trade histories  Cover Image Book Book

Gathering places : Aboriginal and fur trade histories

Peers, Laura Lynn, 1963- (Added Author). Podruchny, Carolyn. (Added Author).

Summary: "British traders and Ojibwe hunters. Cree women and their metis daughters. Explorers and anthropologists and Aboriginal guides and informants. These people, their relationships, and their complex identities and worldviews were not featured in histories of North America until the 1970s, when scholars from multiple disciplines began to bring new perspectives and approaches to bear on the past.

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  • ISBN: 9780774818438
  • ISBN: 0774818433
  • ISBN: 9780774818445
  • ISBN: 0774818441
  • ISBN: 9780774818452
  • ISBN: 9780774859691
  • Physical Description: print
    xi, 324 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 1 Introduction: Complex Subjectivities, Multiple Ways of Knowing / Laura Peers and Carolyn Podruchny -- Part 1: Using Material Culture -- 2 Putting Up Poles: Power, Navigation, and Cultural Mixing in the Fur Trade / Carolyn Podruchny, Frederic W. Gleach, and Roger Roulette -- 3 Dressing for the Homeward Journey: Western Anishnaabe Leadership Roles Viewed through Two Nineteenth-Century Burials / Cory Willmott and Kevin Brownlee -- Part 2: Using Documents -- 4 Anishinaabe Toodaims: Contexts for Politics, Kinship, and Identity in the Eastern Great Lakes / Heidi Bohaker -- 5 The Contours of Everyday Life: Food and Identity in the Plateau Fur Trade / Elizabeth Vibert -- 6 "Make it last forever as it is": John McDonald of Garth's Vision of a Native Kingdom in the Northwest / Germaine Warkentin -- Part 3: Ways of Knowing -- 7 Being and Becoming Métis: A Personal Reflection / Heather Devine -- 8 Historical Research and the Place of Oral History: Conversations from Berens River / Susan Elaine Gray -- Part 4: Ways of Representing -- 9 Border Identities: Métis, Halfbreed, and Mixed-Blood / Theresa Schenck -- 10 Edward Ahenakew's Tutelage by Paul Wallace: Reluctant Scholarship, Inadvertent Preservation / David R. Miller -- 11 Aboriginal History and Historic Sites: The Shifting Ground / Laura Peers and Robert Coutts -- Afterword: Aaniskotaapaan -- Generations and Successions / Jennifer S.H. Brown.
Subject: Indigenous peoples Canada History
Métis History
Fur trade Canada History
Indigenous peoples Material culture Canada
Indigenous peoples Canada Ethnic identity
Native peoples Canada History
Native peoples Material culture Canada
Native peoples Canada Ethnic identity
Autochtones Canada Histoire
Métis Canada Histoire
Fourrures Commerce Canada Histoire
Autochtones Culture matérielle Canada
Autochtones Canada Identité ethnique
Indigenous peoples in Canada
Indigenous peoples Material culture
Fur trade
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples Ethnic identity
Métis
Canada
Métis
Indigenes Volk
Sachkultur
Lebensbedingungen
Pelzhandel
Genre: History.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library E 98 .M34 G38 2010 679618 Stacks Available -

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