LEADER 04890nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910810635903321 005 20231206222427.0 010 $a9786613225283 010 $a1-283-22528-X 010 $a0-7748-5359-X 024 7 $a10.59962/9780774853590 035 $a(CKB)2430000000000346 035 $a(OCoLC)243568347 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10139133 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000382541 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11275659 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000382541 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10393153 035 $a(PQKB)10338446 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000570062 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12234944 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000570062 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10563718 035 $a(PQKB)11759904 035 $a(CaPaEBR)404391 035 $a(CaBNvSL)jme00327098 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3412289 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10146846 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL322528 035 $a(OCoLC)923443136 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/06c939 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3412289 035 $a(DE-B1597)661197 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780774853590 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3246067 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000000346 100 $a19810731d1980 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStrangers in blood$b[electronic resource] $efur trade company families in Indian country /$fJennifer S.H. Brown 210 $aVancouver $cUniversity of British Columbia Press$d1980 215 $a1 online resource (292 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-7748-0125-5 311 $a0-7748-0251-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-237) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tPhotographic Credits -- $tIllustrations -- $tPreface -- $tThe Backgrounds and Antecedents of the British Traders -- $tCompany Men with a Difference: The London and Montreal Britishers -- $tCompany Men and Native Women in Hudson Bay -- $tNorth West Company Men and Native Women -- $tGentlemen of 1821: New Directions in Fur Trade Social Life -- $tDifferent Loyalties: Sexual and Marital Relationships of Company Officers after 1821 -- $tFur Trade Parents and Children before 1821 -- $tPatterns and Problems of "Placing": Company Offspring in Britain and Canada after 1821 -- $tFur Trade Sons and Daughters in a New Company Context -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aFor two centuries (1670-1870), English, Scottish, and Canadian fur traders voyages the myriad waterways of Rupert's Land, the vast territory charted to the Hudson's Bay Company and later splintered among five Canadian provinces and four American states. The knowledge and support of northern Native peoples were critical to the newcomer's survival and success. With acquaintance and alliance came intermarriage, and the unions of European traders and Native women generated thousands of descendants. Jennifer Brown's Strangers in Blood is the first work to look systemically at these parents and their children. Brown focuses on Hudson's Bay Company officers and North West Company wintering partners and clerks ? those whose relationships are best known from post journals, correspondence, accounts, and wills. The durability of such families varied greatly. Settlers, missionaries, European women, and sometimes the courts challenged fur trade marraiges. Some officers' Scottish and Canadian relatives dismissed Native wives and "Indian" progeny as illegitimate. Trades who wooks these ties seriously were obliged to defend them, to leave wills recognizing their wives and children, and to secure their legal and scoial status ? to prove that they were kin, not "strangers in blood." Brown illustrates that the lives and identities of these children were shaped by factors far more complex than "blood." Sons and daughters diverged along paths affected by gender. Some descendants became M?tis nationhood under Louis Riel. Other rejected or were never offered that course ? they passed into white or Indian communities or, in some instances, identified themselves (without prejudice) as "halfbreeds." The fur trade did not coalesce into a single society. Rather, like Rupert's Land, it splintered, and the historical consequences have been with us ever since. 517 3 $aFur trade company families in Indian country 606 $aFur traders$zNorthwest, Canadian 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zNorthwest, Canadian 607 $aNorthwest, Canadian$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aFur traders 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life 676 $a971.2/01 700 $aBrown$b Jennifer S. H.$f1940-$01690751 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810635903321 996 $aStrangers in blood$94077268 997 $aUNINA