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"In 1670, the ancient homeland of the Cree and Ojibwe people of Hudson Bay became known to the English entrepreneurs of the Hudson's Bay Company as Rupert's Land, after the founder and absentee landlord, Prince Rupert. For four decades, Jennifer S.H. Brown has examined the complex relationships that developed among the newcomers and the Algonquian communities--who hosted and tolerated the fur traders--and later, the missionaries, anthropologists, and others who found their way into Indigenous lives and territories. The eighteen essays gathered in this book explore Brown's investigations into the surprising range of interactions among Indigenous people and newcomers as they met or observed one another from a distance, and as they competed, compromised, and rejected or adapted to change. While diverse in their subject matter, the essays have thematic unity in their focus on the old HBC territory and its peoples from the 1600s to the present. More than an anthology, the chapters of An Ethnohistorian in Rupert's Land provide examples of Brown's exceptional skill in the close study of texts, including oral documents, images, artifacts, and other cultural expressions. The volume as a whole represents the scholarly evolution of one of the leading ethnohistorians in Canada and the United States."--

Ehtnohistory --- Fur trade --- Fur traders --- Indians of North America --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Traders, Fur --- Voyageurs (Fur trade) --- Furriers --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Clothing trade --- Trapping --- Ethnohistory --- Ethnohistorical method --- Historical anthropology --- Historical ethnology --- Anthropology --- Methodology --- Hudson's Bay Company --- History. --- Rupert's Land --- Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson --- Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay --- Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay --- Governour and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay --- HBC --- Hudson Bay Company --- Hudson Bay Fur Company --- Hudson's Bay Fur Company --- North West Company --- Prince Rupert's Land --- Manitoba --- fur trade --- Ojibwe --- algonquian studies --- ojibwa --- Cree --- mission history