A gathering of rivers : Indians, Métis, and mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832 /
In A Gathering of Rivers, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy traces the histories of Indian, multiracial, and mining communities in the western Great Lakes region during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For a century the Winnebagos (Ho-Chunks), Mesquakies (Fox), and Sauks successfully confronted w...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- WhoIs Who in the Fox, Wisconsin Region
- Introduction
- Part One: The Fur Trade and the Creation of Accommodation
- Native American Village Economies and the Fur Trade in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
- Creole Communities
- Part Two: Lead Mining: Adaptation and Conflict
- The Expansion of Native American Lead Mining
- The Lead Rush
- Part Three: Adaptation and Removal
- Indian Economic Development, Settlers, and the Erosion of Accommodation
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- A Note on Sources
- Notes
- Index.