Indian Women and French Men,9781558493100

Indian Women and French Men

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ISBN13: 9781558493100
ISBN10: 1558493107
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-12-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Summary

A center of the lucrative fur trade throughout the colonial period, the Great Lakes region was an important site of cultural as well as economic exchange between native and European peoples. In this well-researched study, Susan Sleeper-Smith focuses on an often overlooked aspect of these interactions -- the role played by Indian women who married French traders.

Drawing on a broad range of primary and secondary sources, she shows how these women used a variety of means to negotiate a middle ground between two disparate cultures. Many were converts to Catholicism who constructed elaborate mixed-blood kinship networks that paralleled those of native society, thus facilitating the integration of Indian and French values. By the mid-eighteenth century, native women had extended these kin linkages to fur trade communities throughout the Great Lakes, not only enhancing access to the region's highly prized pelts but also ensuring safe transport for other goods.

Indian Women and French Men depicts the encounter of Old World and New as an extended process of indigen

Table of Contents

Illustrations
ix
Tables
xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1(10)
Fish to Furs: The Fur Trade in Illinois Country
11(12)
Marie Rouensa and the Jesuits: Conversion, Gender, and Power
23(15)
Marie Madeleine Reaume L'archeveque Chevalier and the St. Joseph River Potawatomi
38(16)
British Governance in the Western Great Lakes
54(19)
Agriculture, Warfare, and Neutrality
73(23)
Being Indian and Becoming Catholic
96(20)
Hiding in Plain View: Persistence on the Indiana Frontier
116(25)
Emigrants and Indians: Michigan's Mythical Frontier
141(24)
Notes 165(58)
Index 223

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