Maps and Tables; Introduction; 1. Periodic Shortages, Native Welfare, and the Hudson's Bay Company 1670-1930; 2. The First Century: Adaptive Changes among the Western James Bay Cree between the Early Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries; 3. Economic and Social Accommodations of the James Bay Inlanders to the Fur Trade; 4. Sakie, Esquawenoe, and the Foundation of a Dual-Native Tradition at Moose Factory; 5. The Trade of the Slavey and Dogrib at Fort Simpson in the Early Nineteenth Century; 6. The Microeconomics of Southern Chipewyan Fur-Trade History; Notes on Contributors