Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations, Figures, and Tables ix
4. Foreword xii
5. Acknowledgments xiv
6. Introduction 3
7. ‘To Look for Food Instead of Fur’: Local Economies – Indian Bands and Company Posts 14
8. ‘The Only Remedy Is the Employment of Steam’: Reorganizing the Regional System 44
9. ‘Dependent on the Company’s Provisions for Subsistence’: The Decline of Kihchiwaskahikanihk (York Factory) 63
10. ‘To Be Shut Up on a Small Reserve’: Geographical and Economic Aspects of Indian Treaties 75
11. ‘Lands Are Getting Poor in Hunting’: Treaty Adhesions in Northern Manitoba 99
12. ‘Terms and Conditions as May Be Deemed Expedient’: Metis Aboriginal Title 114
13. ‘Go and Pitch His Camp’: Native Settlement Patterns and Indian Agriculture 143
14. ‘Nothing To Make Up for the Great Loss of Winter Food’: Resource Conflicts over Common-Property Fisheries 174
15. ‘A Great Future Awaits This Section of Northern Manitoba’: Economic Boom and Native Labour 187
16. ‘They Make a Comfortable Living’: Economic Change and Incomes 199
17. ‘Wait until Advancing Civilization Has So Interfered with Their Natural Resources’: Surplus Labour, Migrations, and Stagnation 219
18. ‘The Fish and Waters Should Be Ours’: The Demise of Native Fisheries – Regulation and Capitalization 234
19. ‘Civilizing the Wilderness Will Affect Us’: The Demise of the Hudson’s Bay Company and the Re-Emergence of Competition 249
20. ‘And Now that the Country Has Gone Mining Crazy’: Industrial Capital, Native People, and the Regional Economy 283
21. Conclusion: A Foreword to a New Economic Future? 299
22. Fur Trade Productivity and Prices: Stagnation and Revival 310
23. Summary of Treaty Terms (Written Version) 318
24. Some Land Scrip Intricacies 321
25. Notes 334
26. Index 364