Ebook: An Ethnohistorian in Rupert's Land: Unfinished Conversations

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 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"--Part VI Chiefs, Medicine Men, and Newcomers on the Berens River: Unfinished Conversations -- 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