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Of the mission of Saint Francois Xavier on the "Bay of Stinkards," or rather "Of stinking waters" / Father Allouez -- On the hunting of the Gaspesians / Father Chrestien LeClercq -- The hunting of moose, of bears, of beavers, of lynxes, and other animals according to their seasons / Father Chrestien LeClercq -- Tarrentines and the introduction of European trade goods in the Gulf of Maine / Bruce J. Bourque and Ruth Holmes Whitehead -- The Anishinabeg point of view : the history of the Great Lakes Region to 1800 in nineteenth-century Mississauga, Odawa, and Obijwa historiography / D. Peter MacLeod -- Fur trade literature from a tribal point of view : a critique / Donald F. Bibeau -- Agriculture and the fur trade / D.W. Moodie -- "Give us a little milk" : the social and cultural significance of gift giving in the Lake Superior fur trade / Bruce M. White -- "Starving" and survival in the SubArtic fur trade : a case for contextual semantics / Mary Black-Rogers -- The growth and economic significance of the American fur trade, 1790-1890 / James L. Clayton -- "Red" labor : Iroquois participation in the Atlantic Economy / Gail D. MacLeitch -- The fur trade and eighteenth-century imperialism / W.J. Eccles -- The middle ground / Richard White -- Creative misunderstandings and new understandings / Richard White -- Indians as consumers in the eighteenth century / Arthur J. Ray -- Dressing for success on the Mohawk frontier : Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian fashion / Timothy J. Shannon -- The flow of European trade goods into the Western Great Lakes region, 1715-1760 / Dean L. Anderson -- The matchcoat / Gail DeBuse Potter -- Chiefs coats supplied by the American Fur Company / Allen Chronister -- The myth of the silk hat and the end of the rendezvous / James A. Hanson -- Women, kin, and Catholicism : new perspectives on the fur trade / Susan Sleeper-Smith -- "The custom of the country" : an examination of fur trade marriage practices / Sylvia Van Kirk -- Woman as centre and symbol in the emergence of Metis communities / Jennifer S.H. Brown -- Prelude to Red River : a social portrait of the Great Lakes Métis / Jacqueline Peterson -- The Glaize in 1792 : a composite Indian community / Helen Hornbeck Tanner -- Festivities, fortitude, and fraternalism : fur trade masculinity and the Beaver Club, 1785-1827 / Carolyn Podruchny. |
