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Author Murphy, Lucy Eldersveld, 1953-

Title A gathering of rivers : Indians, Métis, and mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832 / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 233 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Illustrations -- Maps -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- WhoIs Who in the Fox, Wisconsin Region -- Introduction -- Part One: The Fur Trade and the Creation of Accommodation -- Native American Village Economies and the Fur Trade in the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- Creole Communities -- Part Two: Lead Mining: Adaptation and Conflict -- The Expansion of Native American Lead Mining -- The Lead Rush -- Part Three: Adaptation and Removal -- Indian Economic Development, Settlers, and the Erosion of Accommodation -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index
Summary In A Gathering of Rivers, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy traces the histories of Indian, multiracial, and mining communities in the western Great Lakes region during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For a century the Winnebagos (Ho-Chunks), Mesquakies (Fox), and Sauks successfully confronted waves of French and British immigration by diversifying their economies and commercializing lead mining
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-225) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Winnebago Indians -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
Fox Indians -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
Sauk Indians (Algonquian) -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
Métis -- Great Lakes Region (North America)
HISTORY -- State & Local.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Ethnic relations
Métis
Great Lakes Region (North America) -- Ethnic relations
Great Lakes Region
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0803202946
9780803202948
0803232101
9780803232105
1280374179
9781280374173