The Subarctic Fur Trade : Native Social and Economic Adaptations

Hardcover with dust jacket, 194 pages, 6x9.5 in - 15.5x23.5 cm, graphs and maps.

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This volume collects six essays by American and Canadian anthropologists and historians concerning changes to Indigenous lifestyles as a result of the fur trade. Sweeping from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, all of the studies concern First Nations communities in (what is now) Canada, and three focus particularly on regions near James Bay in northern Ontario. Although many authors rely on Hudson’s Bay Company archival documents as data, the scholarly focus of the essays lies in the social, organizational, and economic changes in First Nations communities that the fur trade precipitated.

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