Gathering places : Aboriginal and fur trade histories / edited by Carolyn Podruchny and Laura Peers.

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Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2010]Copyright date: �2010Description: 1 online resource (342 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraitsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780774818438
0774818433
9780774818445
9780774818452 (e-book)

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gathering places : Aboriginal and fur trade histories.DDC classification:

971.004/97 22

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E78.C2 G378 2010eb

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1 Introduction: Complex Subjectivities, Multiple Ways of Knowing / Laura Peers and Carolyn Podruchny -- Part 1: Using Material Culture -- 2 Putting Up Poles: Power, Navigation, and Cultural Mixing in the Fur Trade / Carolyn Podruchny, Frederic W. Gleach, and Roger Roulette -- 3 Dressing for the Homeward Journey: Western Anishnaabe Leadership Roles Viewed through Two Nineteenth-Century Burials / Cory Willmott and Kevin Brownlee -- Part 2: Using Documents -- 4 Anishinaabe Toodaims: Contexts for Politics, Kinship, and Identity in the Eastern Great Lakes / Heidi Bohaker -- 5 The Contours of Everyday Life: Food and Identity in the Plateau Fur Trade / Elizabeth Vibert -- 6 "Make it last forever as it is": John McDonald of Garth's Vision of a Native Kingdom in the Northwest / Germaine Warkentin -- Part 3: Ways of Knowing -- 7 Being and Becoming M�etis: A Personal Reflection / Heather Devine -- 8 Historical Research and the Place of Oral History: Conversations from Berens River / Susan Elaine Gray -- Part 4: Ways of Representing -- 9 Border Identities: M�etis, Halfbreed, and Mixed-Blood / Theresa Schenck -- 10 Edward Ahenakew's Tutelage by Paul Wallace: Reluctant Scholarship, Inadvertent Preservation / David R. Miller -- 11 Aboriginal History and Historic Sites: The Shifting Ground / Laura Peers and Robert Coutts -- Afterword: Aaniskotaapaan -- Generations and Successions / Jennifer S.H. Brown.

Summary: Gathering Places presents some of the most innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to metis, fur trade, and First Nations history being practised today. Whether they are discussing dietary practices on the Plateau, trees as cultural and geographical markers in the trade, the meanings of totemic signatures, issues of representation in public history, or the writings of Aboriginal anthropologists and historians, the authors link archival, archaeological, material, oral, and ethnographic evidence to offer novel explorations that extend beyond earlier scholarship centred on the archive. They draw on Aboriginal perspectives, material forms of evidence, and personal approaches to history to illuminate cross-cultural encounters and challenge older approaches to the past."--pub. desc.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gathering Places presents some of the most innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to metis, fur trade, and First Nations history being practised today. Whether they are discussing dietary practices on the Plateau, trees as cultural and geographical markers in the trade, the meanings of totemic signatures, issues of representation in public history, or the writings of Aboriginal anthropologists and historians, the authors link archival, archaeological, material, oral, and ethnographic evidence to offer novel explorations that extend beyond earlier scholarship centred on the archive. They draw on Aboriginal perspectives, material forms of evidence, and personal approaches to history to illuminate cross-cultural encounters and challenge older approaches to the past."--pub. desc.

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