Introduction
Part I: Finding Words and Remembering
1 Rupert’s Land, Nituskeenan, Our Land: Cree and European Naming and Claiming Around the Dirty Sea
2 Linguistic Solitudes and Changing Social Categories
3 The Blind Men and the Elephant: Touching the Fur Trade
Part II: “We Married the Fur Trade”: Close Encounters and Their Consequences
4 A Demographic Transition in the Fur Trade: Family Sizes of Company Officers and Country Wives, ca. 1750-1850
5 Challenging the Custom of the Country: James Hargrave, His Colleagues, and “the Sex”
6 Partial Truths: A Closer Look at Fur Trade Marriage
Part III: Families and Kinship, the Old and the Young
7 Older Persons in Cree and Ojibwe Stories: Gender, Power, and Survival
8 Kinship Shock for Fur Traders and Missionaries: The Cross-Cousin Challenge
9 Fur Trade Children in Montréal: The St. Gabriel Street Church Baptisms, 1796–1825
Part IV: Recollecting: Women’s Stories of the Fur Trade and Beyond
10 “Mrs. Thompson Was a Model Housewife”: Finding Charlotte Small
11 “All These Stories About Women”: “Many Tender Ties” and a New Fur Trade History
12 Aaniskotaapaan: Generations and Successions
Part V: Cree and Ojibwe Prophets and Preachers: Braided Streams
13 The Wasitay Religion: Prophecy, Oral Literacy, and Belief on Hudson Bay
14 “I Wish to Be as I See You”: An Ojibwe-Methodist Encounter in Fur Trade Country, 1854–55
15 James Settee and His Cree Tradition: “An Indian Camp at the Mouth of Nelson River Hudsons Bay 1823”
16 “As for Me and My House”: Zhaawanaash and Methodism at Berens River, 1874–83
17 Fair Wind: Medicine and Consolation on the Berens River
18 Fields of Dreams: A. Irving Hallowell and the Berens River Ojibwe
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Index