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Record Nr.

UNISA996247942703316

Autore

Martin Calvin

Titolo

Keepers of the game : Indian-animal relationships and the fur trade / / Calvin Martin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1978

ISBN

0-520-34221-6

Edizione

[Reprint 2020]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 226 p. ) : maps ;

Disciplina

971/.004/97

Soggetti

Fur trade - Canada

Indians of North America - Canada - Hunting

Ecology - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Maps -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Paradox -- PART ONE: An Ecological Interpretation of European Contact with the Micmac -- 1. The Protohistoric Indian-Land Relationship -- 2. Early Contact and the Deterioration of the Environmental Ethos -- PART TWO: The Ojibwa Cosmos and the Early Fur Trade -- 3. Pimadaziwin: The Good Life -- 4. Contact and Nature's Conspiracy -- PART THREE: The Paradox Resolved -- 5. The Hunter's Relationship with the Hunted -- 6. Conclusion -- Epilogue: The Indian and the Ecology Movement -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the effects of European contact and the fur trade on the relationship between Indians and animals in eastern Canada, from Lake Winnipeg to the Canadian Maritimes, focusing primarily on the Ojibwa, Cree, Montagnais-Naskapi, and Micmac tribes.