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Author Lytwyn, Victor P.

Title Muskekowuck athinuwick : original people of the great swampy land / Victor P. Lytwyn
Published Winnipeg, Man. : University of Manitoba Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 289 pages) : illustrations
Series Manitoba studies in native history ; 12
Manitoba studies in native history ; 12.
Contents ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Maps, Charts, and Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Who Are the Lowland Cree?""; ""2. The Lowland Cree before European Contact: Images and Reality""; ""3. Upland Neighbours: The Northern Ojibway, Upland Cree, and Eastmain Cree""; ""4. Distant Enemies: The Inuit, Chipewyan, and Iroquois""; ""5. The Lowland Cree and the Land: Seasonal Adaptations to Regional Resources""; ""6. The Lowland Cree in the Fur Trade before 1713""; ""7. The Lowland Cree in the Fur Trade, 1713�1782""; ""8. The Lowland Cree in the Fur Trade, 1783�1821""
""Conclusion""""Endnotes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
Summary The original people of the Hudson Bay lowlands, often known as the Lowland Cree and known to themselves as Muskekowuck Athinuwick, were among the first Aboriginal peoples in northwestern North America to come into contact with Europeans. This book challenges long-held misconceptions about the Lowland Cree, and illustrates how historians have often misunderstood the role and resourcefulness of Aboriginal peoples during the fur-trade era. Although their own oral histories tell that the Lowland Cree have lived in the region for thousands of years, many historians have portrayed the Lowland Cree as relative newcomers who were dependent on the Hudson's Bay Company fur-traders by the 1700s. Historical geographer Victor Lytwyn shows instead that the Lowland Cree had a well-established traditional society that, far from being dependent on Europeans, was instrumental in the survival of traders throughout the network of HBC forts during the 18th and 19th centuries
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Hudson's Bay Company -- History
SUBJECT Hudson's Bay Company fast
Subject Cree Indians -- Hudson Bay Region -- History
Cree Indians -- Ontario, Northern -- History
Cree Indians -- Manitoba, Northern -- History
Fur trade -- Hudson Bay Region -- History
Fur trade -- Ontario, Northern -- History
Fur trade -- Manitoba, Northern -- History
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Cree Indians
Fur trade
Hudson Bay Region
Northern Ontario
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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