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adaptation of traditional societies to market economies
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Catholic conversion among Indigenous peoples
colonial frontiers of exchange
colonial North America commerce
cross-cultural diplomacy in the Great Lakes
cross-cultural kinship dynamics
cultural negotiation in the fur trade
economic anthropology of the fur trade
economic geography of early America
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ethnographic approaches to early American history
French colonial settlements
French traders and Indigenous alliances
French-Indigenous kin networks
fur trade social structures
gender and power in colonial encounters
Great Lakes fur trade history
Great Lakes mission history
hybrid communities in colonial America
Indigenous adaptation and resilience
Indigenous autonomy within colonial systems
Indigenous history of the Midwest
Indigenous intermediaries in commerce
Indigenous women traders
intercultural marriage and social change
intermarriage in colonial society
kinship alliances in trade networks
material culture of the fur trade
Metis culture and identity
mixed-heritage families in New France
Native agency in colonial exchange
Native Catholicism
Native diplomacy and trade routes
Native perspectives on colonization
Native strategies for survival
Native women as cultural brokers
Native women's influence on colonial economies
Native-European relations
transatlantic economy connections
women shaping intercultural relations
women's roles in early North American trade
Product details
- ISBN 9781558493100
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 157 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 06 Dec 2001
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Focusing on the prolonged interaction between Native Americans and Europeans in the Western Great Lakes fur trade, Sleeper-Smith (history, Michigan State U.) argues that, contrary to stereotype, Indians have existed as a viable and distinct people from the earliest times to the present and that, while encounter changed indigenous communities, it also encouraged the evolution of strategic behavior that ensured cultural continuity. In particular she explores the often misunderstood role played by Native women in establishing the fur trade as an avenue of sociocultural change.
SUSAN SLEEPER-SMITH is assistant professor of history at Michigan State University and coeditor of New Faces of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference.
