An ethnohistorian in Rupert's Land : unfinished conversations
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- ISBN: 9781771991711
- ISBN: 1771991712
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viii, 360 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm - Publisher: Edmonton, AB : AU Press, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
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Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Hudson's Bay Company -- History |
Topic Heading: | Indigenous. First Nations Canada. Metis Canada. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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For four decades, Jennifer S. H. Brown has examined the complex relationships that developed among the newcomers to Rupert's Land and the existing Algonquian communities â who hosted and tolerated the fur traders â and later, the missionaries, anthropologists, and others who found their way into Indigenous lives and territories. The eighteen essays gathered in this book explore Brownâs investigations into the surprising range of interactions among Indigenous people and newcomers as they met or observed one another from a distance, and as they competed, compromised, and rejected or adapted to change. As a whole, this volume represents the scholarly evolution of one of the leading ethnohistorians in Canada and the United States.
- Univ of Washington Pr
In 1670, the ancient homeland of the Cree and Ojibwe people of Hudson Bay became known to the English entrepreneurs of the Hudsonâs Bay Company as Rupertâs Land, after the founder and absentee landlord, Prince Rupert. For four decades, Jennifer S. H. Brown has examined the complex relationships that developed among the newcomers and the Algonquian communitiesâwho hosted and tolerated the fur tradersâand later, the missionaries, anthropologists, and others who found their way into Indigenous lives and territories. The eighteen essays gathered in this book explore Brownâs investigations into the surprising range of interactions among Indigenous people and newcomers as they met or observed one another from a distance, and as they competed, compromised, and rejected or adapted to change.
While diverse in their subject matter, the essays have thematic unity in their focus on the old HBC territory and its peoples from the 1600s to the present. More than an anthology, the chapters of An Ethnohistorian in Rupertâs Land provide examples of Brownâs exceptional skill in the close study of texts, including oral documents, images, artifacts, and other cultural expressions. The volume as a whole represents the scholarly evolution of one of the leading ethnohistorians in Canada and the United States.