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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

by (author) Arthur Ray

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2017
Category
Native American, Pre-Confederation (to 1867), Social History, Expeditions & Discoveries, Native American Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802079800
    Publish Date
    Dec 1998
    List Price
    $33.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802041333
    Publish Date
    Mar 1998
    List Price
    $64.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487522384
    Publish Date
    May 2017
    List Price
    $28.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487516925
    Publish Date
    Jun 2017
    List Price
    $28.95

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Description

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Indians in the Fur Trade makes extensive use of previously unpublished Hudson's Bay Company archival materials and other available data to reconstruct the cultural geography of the West at the time of early contact, illustrating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. Now with a new introduction and an update on sources, it will continue to be of great use to students and scholars of Native and Canadian history.

About the author

Arthur J. Ray is a professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia, and author of Indians in the Fur Trade and I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People.

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