Strangers In Blood: Fur Trader Company Families In Indian Country

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Strangers In Blood: Fur Trader Company Families In Indian CountryISBN13:9780806128139ISBN10:0806128135Author:Brown, Jennifer S. H. (Author)Description:For Two Centuries (1670-1870), English, Scottish, And Canadian Fur Traders Voyaged The Myriad Waterways Of Rupert's Land, The Vast Territory Charted To The Hudson's Bay Company And Later Splintered Among Five Canadian Provinces And Four American States The Knowledge And Support Of Northern Native Peoples Were Critical To The Newcomer's Survival And Success With Acquaintance And Alliance Came Intermarriage, And The Unions Of European Traders And Native Women Generated Thousands Of Descendants Jennifer Brown's Strangers In Blood Is The First Work To Look Systematically At These Parents And Their Children Brown Focuses On Hudson's Bay Company Officers And North West Company Wintering Partners And Clerks-Those Whose Relationships Are Best Known From Post Journals, Correspondence, Accounts, And Wills The Durability Of Such Families Varied Greatly Settlers, Missionaries, European Women, And Sometimes The Courts Challenged Fur Trade Marriages Some Officers' Scottish And Canadian Relatives Dismissed Native Wives And Indian Progeny As Illegitimate Traders Who Took These Ties Seriously Were Obliged To Defend Them, To Leave Wills Recognizing Their Wives And Children, And To Secure Their Legal And Social Status-To Prove That They Were Kin, Not Strangers In Blood Brown Illustrates That The Lives And Identities Of These Children Were Shaped By Factors Far More Complex Than Blood Sons And Daughters Diverged Along Paths Affected By Gender Some Descendants Became M Tis And Espoused M Tis Nationhood Under Louis Riel Others Rejected Or Were Never Offered That Course-They Passed Into White Or Indian Communities Or, In Some Instances, Identified Themselves (Without Prejudice) As Half Breeds The Fur Trade Did Not Coalesce Into A Single Society Rather, Like Rupert's Land, It Splintered, And The Historical Consequences Have Been With Us Ever Since Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:ARTHUR H CLARK COPublication Date:1996-02-15Weight:0.87 lbsDimensions:0.6'' H x 9'' L x 6.03'' WNumber of Pages:292Language:English

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