Indian Women and French Men - Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes

Focusing on the prolonged interaction between Native Americans and Europeans in the Western Great Lakes fur trade, Sleeper-Smith (history, Michigan State U.) argues that, contrary to stereotype, Indians have existed as a viable and distinct people from the earliest times to the present and that, while encounter changed indigenous communities, it also encouraged the evolution of strategic behavior that ensured cultural continuity. In particular she explores the often misunderstood role played by Native women in establishing the fur trade as an avenue of sociocultural change.

Info autore

SUSAN SLEEPER-SMITH is assistant professor of history at Michigan State University and coeditor of New Faces of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference.

Riassunto

The Great Lakes region was an important site of cultural as well as economic exchange between native and European peoples in the colonial period. This study focuses on an often overlooked aspect of these interactions - the role played by Indian women who married French traders.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Susan Sleeper-Smith
• Editore: University Of Massachusetts Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.12.2001
• EAN: 9781558493100
• ISBN: 978-1-55849-310-0
• Pagine: 264
• Dimensioni: 157 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Peso: 400 g
• Illustrazioni: 8 colour illustrations
• Serie: Native Americans of the Northe; Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History & the Contemporary S.; Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History & the Contemporary; Native Americans of the Northe; Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History & the Contemporary
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie