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The microeconomics of southern Chipewyan fur trade history
subarctic fur trade : native social and economic adaptations • Vancouver • Published In 1984 • Pages: 147-183
By: Jarvenpa, Robert, Brumbach, Hetty Jo.
Abstract
This is a study of the rapidly changing material adaptations of the Chipewyan Indians in the late fur trade economy of north central Canada during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In essence, this work combines archival materials (e.g., fur trade business accounts and journals) with other forms of evidence (archaeological data and interviews with native informants) "…in explaining how people coped with the material conditions of local ecosystems and the political economy of the Euro-Canadian fur market" (p. 147). Some of the major topics discussed in the text, all of which relate in some manner to the trade between Chipewyans and the fur companies, are: major trade routes, the annual cycle of trading exchange, the caloric intake of imported vs. native foods, socio-cultural change, and a profile of the trading transactions of four Chipewyan traders.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1999
- Field Date
- 1979-1981
- Coverage Date
- late nineteenth - early twentieth centuries
- Coverage Place
- Isle a la Crosse region, Upper Churchill River area, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Notes
- Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-183)
- LCCN
- 84238746
- LCSH
- Chipewyan Indians