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Indians in the Fur Trade
Their Roles As Trappers, Hunters, and Middlemen in the Lands Southwest of Hudson Bay, 1660-1870
Arthur Ray, Arthur J. Ray
University of Toronto Press · Print & ebook · December 15, 1998
Reading lane: Pre-Confederation Canada
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 Indians in the Fur Trade makes extensive use of previously unpublished Hudson's Bay Company archival materials and other available data to reconstruct the cultural geography of the West at the time of early contact, illustrating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.
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- Authors
- Arthur Ray, Arthur J. Ray
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Published
- December 15, 1998
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Pre-Confederation Canada · Indigenous & Colonial History
- Reading lane
- Pre-Confederation Canada
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Pre-Confederation Canada
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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 Indians in the Fur Trade makes extensive use of previously unpublished Hudson's Bay Company archival materials and other available data to reconstruct the cultural geography of the...
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