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Machine generated contents note: pt. 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. Blind Men and the Elephant: Touching the Fur Trade -- pt. II "We Married the Fur Trade": Close Encounters and Their Consequences -- 4. 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 -- pt. 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 Montreal: The St. Gabriel Street Church Baptisms, 1796--1825 -- pt. 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 History -- 12. Aaniskotaapaan: Generations and Successions -- pt. V Cree and Ojibwe Prophets and Preachers: Braided Streams -- 13. 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" -- pt. 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--83 -- 17. Fair Wind: Medicine and Consolation on the Berens River -- 18. Fields of Dreams: A. Irving Hallowell and the Berens River Ojibwe. |