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The ecological Indian : myth and history
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ISBN: 0393047555 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company,

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The Subarctic fur trade : native social and economic adaptations
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ISBN: 9780774803748 0774803746 9780774801867 0774801867 Year: 1990 Publisher: Vancouver: University of British Columbia press,

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Indians, animals, and the fur trade : a critique of Keepers of the game
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ISBN: 0820305634 Year: 1981 Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press,

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The Subarctic fur trade : native social and economic adaptations
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ISBN: 9786613225573 0774854235 1283225573 Year: 1984 Publisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press,

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Originally presented at the American Society for Ethnohistory conference in 1981, the papers in this book focus on themes which have been near the centre of fur trade scholarship: the identification of Indian motivations; the degree to which Indians were discriminating consumers and creative participants; and the extent of Native dependency on the trade. It spans the period from the seventeenth century up to and including the twentieth century. In one of the key essays, Arthur J. Ray questions the theory that modern Native welfare societies are of recent origin and traces their roots to the early fur trade. In developing his thesis, his concerns about resource depletions and other ecological changes, the advent of new mercantilistic impulses, and the development of dependence also emerge as sources of inquiry by the other authors. Papers by Charles A. Bishop, Toby Morantz, and Carol M. Judd focus on the North Algonquians in the eastern subarctic and earlier centuries of the trade, while two final essays by Shepard Krech, and Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach shift the focus to the North Athapascans in the western subarctic. The Subarctic Fur Trade will help scholars become more fully aware of the issues concerned with Native economic history, which are of common interest to scholars from many different disciplines. It also illustrates the methods that are increasingly being used to arrive at empirically based answers to questions and which will, when further refined, lead to greater advances in fur-trade scholarship.


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Indigenous knowledge and the environment in Africa and North America
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ISBN: 0821444115 9780821444115 9780821419960 082141996X Year: 2012 Publisher: Athens, OH Ohio University Press

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Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts. This collection draws from African and North American cases to argue that the forms of knowledge identified as "indigenous" resulted from strategies to control environmental resources during and after colonial encounters. At times indigenous knowledges represented a "middle ground" of intellectual exchanges between colonizers and colonized; elsewhere, indigenous knowledges were defined through conflic

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