Gathering places : Aboriginal and fur trade histories /

Gathering places : Aboriginal and fur trade histories /

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Gathering Places presents some of the most innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to metis, fur trade, and First Nations history being practised today. Whether they are discussing dietary practices on the Plateau, trees as cultural and geographical markers in the trade, the meanings of totemic...

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Other Authors: Peers, Laura L. (Laura Lynn), Podruchny, Carolyn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples > Canada > History.
Métis > History.
Fur trade > Canada > History.
Indigenous peoples > Material culture > Canada.
Indigenous peoples > Canada > Ethnic identity.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction: Complex Subjectivities, Multiple Ways of Knowing / Laura Peers and Carolyn Podruchny
  • Part 1: Using Material Culture
  • 2 Putting Up Poles: Power, Navigation, and Cultural Mixing in the Fur Trade / Carolyn Podruchny, Frederic W. Gleach, and Roger Roulette
  • 3 Dressing for the Homeward Journey: Western Anishnaabe Leadership Roles Viewed through Two Nineteenth-Century Burials / Cory Willmott and Kevin Brownlee
  • Part 2: Using Documents
  • 4 Anishinaabe Toodaims: Contexts for Politics, Kinship, and Identity in the Eastern Great Lakes / Heidi Bohaker
  • 5 The Contours of Everyday Life: Food and Identity in the Plateau Fur Trade / Elizabeth Vibert
  • 6 "Make it last forever as it is": John McDonald of Garth's Vision of a Native Kingdom in the Northwest / Germaine Warkentin
  • Part 3: Ways of Knowing
  • 7 Being and Becoming Métis: A Personal Reflection / Heather Devine
  • 8 Historical Research and the Place of Oral History: Conversations from Berens River / Susan Elaine Gray
  • Part 4: Ways of Representing
  • 9 Border Identities: Métis, Halfbreed, and Mixed-Blood / Theresa Schenck
  • 10 Edward Ahenakew's Tutelage by Paul Wallace: Reluctant Scholarship, Inadvertent Preservation / David R. Miller
  • 11 Aboriginal History and Historic Sites: The Shifting Ground / Laura Peers and Robert Coutts
  • Afterword: Aaniskotaapaan
  • Generations and Successions / Jennifer S.H. Brown.

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