Title Indian women and French men : rethinking cultural encounter in the western Great Lakes / Susan Sleeper-Smith

Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2001

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 234 p.) Series Native Americans of the Northeast Native Americans of the Northeast. Contents Fish to furs: the fur trade in Illinois country -- Marie Rouensa and the Jesuits: conversion, gender, and power -- Marie Madeleine Réaume L'archêveque Chevalier and the St. Joseph River Potawatomi -- British governance in the western Great Lakes -- Agriculture, warfare, and neutrality -- Being Indian and becoming Catholic -- Hiding in plain view: persistence on the Indiana frontier -- Emigrants and Indians: Michigan's mythical frontier Summary A center of the lucrative fur trade throughout the colonial period, the Great Lakes region was an important site of cultural as well as economic exchange between native and European peoples. In this well-researched study, Susan Sleeper-Smith focuses on an often overlooked aspect of these interactions - the role played by Indian women who married French traders Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-221) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Indian women -- Northwest, Old -- History Indians of North America -- Commerce -- Northwest, Old Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples -- Northwest, Old Fur trade -- Northwest, Old -- History Indians -- First contact with other peoples Fur -- Northwest, Old -- History Indians -- First contact with other peoples -- Northwest, Old Indians -- Commerce -- Northwest, Old Indians -- First contact with other peoples. Fur. Fur trade. Indian women. Indians of North America -- Commerce. Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples. Kolonisatie. Bonthandel. Indianen. Fransen. United States -- Old Northwest. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book LC no. 2021695159 ISBN 9781613768105 1613768109

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