List of Illustrations | p. viii |
List of Tables | p. ix |
Source Acknowledgments | p. xi |
New Perspectives | |
Cultures of Exchange in a North Atlantic World | p. xvii |
Indian Voices Introduction | p. 3 |
Of the Mission of Saint Francois Xavier on the "Bay of Stinkards," or Rather "Of Stinking Waters" | p. 7 |
On the Hunting of the Gaspesians | p. 10 |
The Hunting of Moose, of Bears, of Beavers, of Lynxes, and other animals according to their seasons | p. 17 |
Tarrentines and the Introduction of European Trade Goods in the Gulf of Maine | p. 22 |
The Anishinabeg Point of View: The History of the Great Lakes Region to 1800 in Nineteenth-Century Mississauga, Odawa, and Ojibwa Historiography | p. 45 |
Fur Trade Literature from a Tribal Point of View: A Critique | p. 65 |
The Social and Political Significance of Exchange Introduction | p. 83 |
Agriculture and the Fur Trade | p. 88 |
"Give Us a Little Milk": The Social and Cultural Significance of Gift Giving in die Lake Superior Fur Trade | p. 114 |
"Starving" and Survival in the Subarctic Fur Trade: A Case for Contextual Semantics | p. 157 |
The Growth and Economic Significance of the American Fur Trade, 1790-1890 | p. 160 |
"Red" Labor: Iroquois Participation in the Atlantic Economy | p. 181 |
The Fur Trade and Eighteenth-Century Imperialism | p. 215 |
The Middle Ground | p. 246 |
Creative Misunderstandings and New Understandings | p. 305 |
Cloth Trade Introduction | p. 315 |
Indians as Consumers in the Eighteenth Century | p. 320 |
Dressing for Success on the Mohawk Frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian Fashion | p. 344 |
The Flow of European Trade Goods into the Western Great Lakes Region, 1715-1760 | p. 385 |
The Matchcoat | p. 411 |
Chiefs Coats Supplied by the American Fur Company | p. 414 |
The Myth of the Silk Hat and the End of the Rendezvous | p. 420 |
Gender, Kinship, and Community Introduction | p. 439 |
Women, Kin, and Catholicism: New Perspectives on the Fur Trade | p. 443 |
"The Custom of the Country": An Examination of Fur Trade Marriage Practices | p. 481 |
Woman as Centre and Symbol in the Emergence of Metis Communities | p. 519 |
Prelude to Red River: A Social Portrait of the Great Lakes Métis | p. 529 |
The Glaize in 1792: A Composite Indian Community | p. 561 |
Festivities, Fortitude, and Fraternalism: Fur Trade Masculinity and the Beaver Club, 1785-1827 | p. 593 |
Index | p. 621 |
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