The Subarctic Fur Trade: Native Social and Economic Adaptations

by Shepard Krech III

Book Overview

The papers in this book focus on several themes: the identification of Indian motives; the degree to which Indians were discriminating consumers and creative participants; and the extent of the native dependency on the trade. It spans the period from the seventeenth century up to and including the twentieth century. In one of the key essays, Arthur J. Ray questions the theory that modern native welfare societies are of recent origin, and traces their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774801867
• ISBN13: 9780774801867
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Not Avail
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.