Many Tender Ties

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Many Tender Ties – Women in Fur-Trade Society 1670 – 1870

Tracing the histories of Indian women’s mixed-race daughters and granddaughters, Many Tender Ties helps show how fur-trade society developed and changed over the next two hundred years. As a result a unique society emerged in western Canada derived from both Native and European culture.

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Many Tender Ties – Women in Fur-Trade Society 1670 – 1870

Beginning with the founding of the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1670, the fur trade dominated the development of of the Canadian West. In this long-neglected story of interracial fur-trade families in western Canada, Sylvia Van Kirk demonstrates how important women were to the Canadian fur trade. She illuminates mutual economic dependency between Native peoples and European traders and shows how marriages of fur traders to Indian women created bonds that advanced trade relations.

ISBN – 978-0-8061-1847-5
301 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″

The University of Oklahoma Press,  1980