Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fur trade
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Historic Johnston Family of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Author: Historical Collections
Author: Michigan Historical Collections
Author: Historical Collections
Author: Michigan State Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Michigan Historical Collections
Author: Michigan Historical CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Historical Collections. Collections and Researches
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385511801
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais
Author: Timothy CochranePublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452958335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
The journals of two clerks of the American Fur Company recall a lost moment in the history of the fur trade and the Anishinaabeg along Lake Superior’s North Shore Long after the Anishinaabeg first inhabited and voyageurs plied Lake Superior’s North Shore in Minnesota, and well before the tide of Scandinavian immigrants swept in, Bela Chapman, a clerk of John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Company, fetched up in Gichi Bitobig—a stony harbor now known as Grand Marais. Through the year that followed, Chapman recorded his efforts on behalf of Astor’s enterprise: setting up a working post to compete with the Hudson Bay Company, establishing trading relationships with the local Anishinaabeg, and steering a crew of African-Anishinaabeg, Yankee, Virginian, and Métis boatmen. The young clerk’s journal, and another kept by his successor, George Johnston, provides a window into a story largely lost to history. Using these and other little known documents, Timothy Cochrane recreates the drama that played out in the cold weather months in Grand Marais between 1823 and 1825. In its portrayal of the changing fur trade on the great lake, Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais offers a rare glimpse of the Anishinaabeg—especially the leader Espagnol—as astute and active trading partners, playing the upstart Americans for competitive advantage against their rivals, even as the company men contend with the harsh geographic realities of the North Shore. Through the words of long-ago witnesses, the book recovers both the too-often overlooked Anishinaabeg roots and corporate origins of Grand Marais, a history deeper and more complex than is often told. Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais recalls a time in northern Minnesota when men of the American Fur Company and the Anishinaabeg navigated the shifting course of progress, negotiating the new perils and prospects of commerce’s westward drift.
Historical Collections
Author: Michigan Historical CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Lines Drawn upon the Water
Author: Karl S. HelePublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554580978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The First Nations who have lived in the Great Lakes watershed have been strongly influenced by the imposition of colonial and national boundaries there. The essays in Lines Drawn upon the Water examine the impact of the Canadian—American border on communities, with reference to national efforts to enforce the boundary and the determination of local groups to pursue their interests and define themselves. Although both governments regard the border as clearly defined, local communities continue to contest the artificial divisions imposed by the international boundary and define spatial and human relationships in the borderlands in their own terms. The debate is often cast in terms of Canada’s failure to recognize the 1794 Jay Treaty’s confirmation of Native rights to transport goods into Canada, but ultimately the issue concerns the larger struggle of First Nations to force recognition of their people’s rights to move freely across the border in search of economic and social independence.
Historical Collections: Collections and Researches Made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385530180
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 761
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.