Authors: Susan Sleeper-Smith
ISBN-13: 9781558493100, ISBN-10: 1558493107
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Date Published: December 2001
Edition: 1st Edition
Focusing on the prolonged interaction between Native Americans and Europeans in the Western Great Lakes fur trade, Sleeper-Smith (history, Michigan State U.) argues that, contrary to stereotype, Indians have existed as a viable and distinct people from the earliest times to the present and that, while encounter changed indigenous communities, it also encouraged the evolution of strategic behavior that ensured cultural continuity. In particular she explores the often misunderstood role played by Native women in establishing the fur trade as an avenue of sociocultural change. With several b&w maps and diagrams as well as 12 color plates of contemporary paintings and other artwork. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Fish to Furs: The Fur Trade in Illinois Country | 11 |
2 | Marie Rouensa and the Jesuits: Conversion, Gender, and Power | 23 |
3 | Marie Madeleine Reaume L'archeveque Chevalier and the St. Joseph River Potawatomi | 38 |
4 | British Governance in the Western Great Lakes | 54 |
5 | Agriculture, Warfare, and Neutrality | 73 |
6 | Being Indian and Becoming Catholic | 96 |
7 | Hiding in Plain View: Persistence on the Indiana Frontier | 116 |
8 | Emigrants and Indians: Michigan's Mythical Frontier | 141 |
Notes | 165 | |
Index | 223 |