Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country Paperback / softback - 1996
by Jennifer S. H. Brown
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- Title Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country
- Author Jennifer S. H. Brown
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition Oklahoma paperba
- Condition New
- Pages 292
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK
- Date 1996-02-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9780806128139
- ISBN 9780806128139 / 0806128135
- Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.03 x 0.6 in (22.86 x 15.32 x 1.52 cm)
- Reading level 1480
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Canadian
- Cultural Region: Pacific Northwest
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Library of Congress subjects Hudson's Bay Company, Fur traders - Northwest, Canadian
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95036771
- Dewey Decimal Code 971.2
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From the rear cover
For two centuries (1670 - 1870), English, Scottish, and Canadian fur traders voyaged the myriad waterways of Rupert's Land, the vast territory charted to the Hudson's Bay Company and later splintered among five Canadian provinces and four American states. The knowledge and support of northern Native peoples were critical to the newcomer's survival and success. With acquaintance and alliance came intermarriage, and the unions of European traders and Native women generated thousands of descendants. Jennifer Brown's Strangers in Blood is the first work to look systematically at these parents and their children. Brown focuses on Hudson's Bay Company officers and North West Company wintering partners and clerks - those whose relationships are best known from post journals, correspondence, accounts, and wills. The durability of such families varied greatly. Settlers, missionaries, European women, and sometimes the courts challenged fur trade marriages. Some officers' Scottish and Canadian relatives dismissed Native wives and "Indian" progeny as illegitimate. Traders who took these ties seriously were obliged to defend them, to leave wills recognizing their wives and children, and to secure their legal and social status - to prove that they were kin, not "strangers in blood". Brown illustrates that the lives and identities of these children were shaped by factors far more complex than "blood". Sons and daughters diverged along paths affected by gender. Some descendants became Metis and espoused Metis nationhood under Louis Riel. Others rejected or were never offered that coursethey passed into white or Indian communities or, in some instances, identified themselves (without prejudice) as"halfbreeds". The fur trade did not coalesce into a single society. Rather, like Rupert's Land, it splintered, and the historical consequences have been with us ever since.