The Subarctic fur trade : native social and economic adaptations

"Contains six papers originally presented at the 1981 annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. These papers cover various aspects of Native economic and social adaptations in the context of the Canadian fur trade in the period ranging from the 17th century up to and including the 20th century."
"Contains six papers originally presented at the 1981 annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. These papers cover various aspects of Native economic and social adaptations in the context of the Canadian fur trade in the period ranging from the 17th century up to and including the 20th century."@en
"The papers in this book focus on themes which have been near thecentre of fur trade scholarship: the identification of Indianmotivations; the degree to which Indians were discriminating consumersand creative participants; and the extent of Native dependency on thetrade. Spanning the period from the seventeenth century up to andincluding the twentieth, with distinguished authors such as J. ArthurRay and Toby Morantz, The Subarctic Fur Trade will helpscholars become more fully aware of the issues concerned with Nativeeconomic history."