An ethnohistorian in Rupert's land : : unfinished conversations / / Jennifer S.H. Brown.

• VerfasserIn: Brown, Jennifer S. H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edmonton, AB : : AU Press,, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (369 pages)

"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 rel...

Table of Contents

• Rupert's Land, Nituskeenan, Our Land : Cree and European naming and claiming around the dirty sea
• Linguistic solitudes and changing social categories
• The blind men and the elephant : touching the fur trade
• A demographic transition in the fur trade : family sizes of company officers and country wives, ca. 1750-1850
• Challenging the custom of the country : James Hargrave, his colleagues, and "the Sex"
• Partial truths : a closer look at fur trade marriage
• Older persons in Cree and Ojibwe stories : gender, power, and survival
• Kinship shock for fur traders and missionaries : the cross-cousin challenge
• Fur trade children in Montrâeal : the St. Gabriel Street Church baptisms, 1796-1825
• "Mrs. Thompson was a model housewife" : finding Charlotte Small
• "All these stories about women" : "many tender ties" and a new fur trade history
• Aaniskotaapaan : generations and successions
• The Wasitay religion : prophecy, oral literacy, and belief on Hudson Bay
• "I wish to be as I see you" : an Ojibwe-Methodist encounter in fur trade country, 1854-55
• James Settee and his Cree tradition : "an Indian camp at the mouth of Nelson River Hudsons Bay 1823
• "As for me and my house" : Zhaawanaash and Methodism at Berens River, 1874-83
• Fair wind : medicine and consolation on the Berens River
• Fields of dreams : A. Irving Hallowell and the Berens River Ojibwe.