Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes (Native Americans of the Northeast)
Sleeper-Smith, Susan
ISBN 10: 1558493107 ISBN 13: 9781558493100
Published by University of Massachusetts Pres, 2001
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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.
About the Author: 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.
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Title: Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking ...
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Pres
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good