The Subarctic Fur Trade: Native Social and Economic Adaptations

Contains six papers originally presented at the 1981 annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. These papers cover various aspects of Native economic and social adaptations in the context of the Canadian fur trade in the period ranging from the 17th century up to and including the 20th century. --Publisher's description. Contents: Periodic shortages, native welfare, and the Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1930 / Arthur J. Ray -- The first century / Charles A. Bishop -- Economic and social accommodations of the James Bay Islanders to the fur trade / Toby Morantz -- Sakie, Esquawenoe, and the foundation of a dual-native tradition at Moose Factory / Carol M. Judd -- The trade of the Slavey and Dogrib at Fort Simpson in the early nineteenth century / Shepard Krech III -- The microeconomics of Southern Chipewyan fur-trade history / Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach.

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