An ethnohistorian in Rupert's Land : unfinished conversations /

"In 1670, the ancient homeland of the Cree and Ojibwe people of Hudson Bay became known to the English entrepreneurs of the Hudson's Bay Company as Rupert's Land, after the founder and absentee landlord, Prince Rupert. For four decades, Jennifer S.H. Brown has examined the complex rel...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Jennifer S. H., 1940- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edmonton, AB : AU Press,Athabasca University, [2017]
Temas:
Hudson's Bay Company > History.
Hudson's Bay Company.
Indians of North America > Northwest, Canadian > History.
Indians of North America > First contact with other peoples > Northwest, Canadian.
Fur trade > Northwest, Canadian > History.
Fur traders > Northwest, Canadian > History.
Ethnohistory > Northwest, Canadian.
Native peoples > Northwest, Canadian > History.
Native peoples > First contact with Europeans > Northwest, Canadian.
Fourrures > Commerce > Nord-Ouest canadien > Histoire.
Coureurs de bois > Nord-Ouest canadien > Histoire.
Ethnohistoire > Nord-Ouest canadien.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
Ethnohistory.
Fur trade.
Fur traders.
Indians of North America.
Indians of North America > First contact with other peoples.
Rupert's Land > History.
Terre de Rupert > Histoire.
Canada > Canadian Northwest.
Manitoba > Rupert's Land.
fur trade
Ojibwe
algonquian studies
ojibwa
Cree
mission history
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Finding Words and Remembering; 1 Rupert's Land, Nituskeenan, Our Land: Cree and European Naming and Claiming Around the Dirty Sea; 2 Linguistic Solitudes and Changing Social Categories; 3 The Blind Men and the Elephant: Touching the Fur Trade; Part II "We Married the Fur Trade": Close Encounters and Their Consequences; 4 A Demographic Transition in the Fur Trade: Family Sizes of Company Officers and Country Wives, ca. 1750-1850.
  • 5 Challenging the Custom of the Country: James Hargrave, His Colleagues, and "the Sex"6 Partial Truths: A Closer Look at Fur Trade Marriage; Part III Families and Kinship, the Old and the Young; 7 Older Persons in Cree and Ojibwe Stories: Gender, Power, and Survival; 8 Kinship Shock for Fur Traders and Missionaries: The Cross-Cousin Challenge; 9 Fur Trade Children in Montréal: The St. Gabriel Street Church Baptisms, 1796-1825; Part IV Recollecting: Women's Stories of the Fur Trade and Beyond; 10 "Mrs. Thompson Was a Model Housewife": Finding Charlotte Small.
  • 11 "All These Stories About Women": " Many Tender Ties" and a New Fur Trade History12 Aaniskotaapaan: Generations and Successions; Part V Cree and Ojibwe Prophets and Preachers: Braided Streams; 13 The Wasitay Religion: Prophecy, Oral Literacy, and Belief on Hudson Bay; 14 "I Wish to Be as I See You": An Ojibwe-Methodist Encounter in Fur Trade Country, 1854-55; 15 James Settee and His Cree Tradition: "An Indian Camp at the Mouth of Nelson River Hudsons Bay 1823"; Part VI Chiefs, Medicine Men, and Newcomers on the Berens River: Unfinished Conversations.
  • 16 "As for Me and My House": Zhaawanaash and Methodism at Berens River, 1874-8317 Fair Wind: Medicine and Consolation on the Berens River; 18 Fields of Dreams: A. Irving Hallowell and the Berens River Ojibwe; Publication Credits; Index.

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