Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Maps and Tables vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Periodic Shortages, Native Welfare, and the Hudson’s Bay Company 1670–1930 1
6. The First Century: Adaptive Changes among the Western James Bay Cree between the Early Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries 21
7. Economic and Social Accommodations of the James Bay Inlanders to the Fur Trade 55
8. Sakie, Esquawenoe, and the Foundation of a Dual-Native Tradition at Moose Factory 81
9. The Trade of the Slavey and Dogrib at Fort Simpson in the Early Nineteenth Century 99
10. The Microeconomics of Southern Chipewyan Fur Trade History 147
11. Notes on Contributors 184
12. Index 186