2 Putting Up Poles: Power, Navigation, and Cultural Mixing in the Fur Trade

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Preface and Acknowledgments x
5. Acronyms xiv
6. Introduction: Complex Subjectivities, Multiple Ways of Knowing 1
7. Using Material Culture
8. Putting Up Poles: Power, Navigation, and Cultural Mixing in the Fur Trade 25
9. Dressing for the Homeward Journey: Western Anishinaabe Leadership Roles Viewed through Two Nineteenth-Century Burials 48
10. Using Documents
11. Anishinaabe Toodaims: Contexts for Politics, Kinship, and Identity in the Eastern Great Lakes 93
12. The Contours of Everyday Life: Food and Identity in the Plateau Fur Trade 119
13. “Make it last forever as it is”: John McDonald of Garth’s Vision of a Native Kingdom in the Northwest 149
14. Ways of Knowing
15. Being and Becoming Métis: A Personal Reflection 181
16. Historical Research and the Place of Oral History: Conversations from Berens River 211
17. Ways of Representing
18. Border Identities: Métis, Halfbreed, and Mixed-Blood 233
19. Edward Ahenakew’s Tutelage by Paul Wallace: Reluctant Scholarship, Inadvertent Preservation 249
20. Aboriginal History and Historic Sites: The Shifting Ground 274
21. Afterword: Aaniskotaapaan–Generations and Successions 295
22. Contributors 312
23. Index 315