Illustrations -- Maps -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- WhoIs Who in the Fox, Wisconsin Region -- Introduction -- Part One: The Fur Trade and the Creation of Accommodation -- Native American Village Economies and the Fur Trade in the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- Creole Communities -- Part Two: Lead Mining: Adaptation and Conflict -- The Expansion of Native American Lead Mining -- The Lead Rush -- Part Three: Adaptation and Removal -- Indian Economic Development, Settlers, and the Erosion of Accommodation -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index
Summary
In A Gathering of Rivers, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy traces the histories of Indian, multiracial, and mining communities in the western Great Lakes region during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For a century the Winnebagos (Ho-Chunks), Mesquakies (Fox), and Sauks successfully confronted waves of French and British immigration by diversifying their economies and commercializing lead mining
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-225) and index
