Indian women and French men : rethinking cultural encounter in the western Great Lakes /

"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 inter...

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Main Author: Sleeper-Smith, Susan.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2001.
Series:Native Americans of the Northeast
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Online Access:Book review (H-Net)
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb34665
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Table of Contents:
  • 1
  • Fish to Furs: The Fur Trade in Illinois Country
  • 11
  • 2
  • Marie Rouensa and the Jesuits: Conversion, Gender, and Power
  • 23
  • 3
  • Marie Madeleine Reaume L'archeveque Chevalier and the St. Joseph River Potawatomi
  • 38
  • 4
  • British Governance in the Western Great Lakes
  • 54
  • 5
  • Agriculture, Warfare, and Neutrality
  • 73
  • 6
  • Being Indian and Becoming Catholic
  • 96
  • 7
  • Hiding in Plain View: Persistence on the Indiana Frontier
  • 116
  • 8
  • Emigrants and Indians: Michigan's Mythical Frontier
  • 141.
  • Fish to furs: the fur trade in Illinois country
  • Marie Rouensa and the Jesuits: conversion, gender, and power
  • Marie Madeleine R<U+fffd>eaume L'arch<U+fffd>eveque 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.
  • 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.