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• catalog abstract ""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 indigenous adaptation and change rather than one of conflict and inevitable demise. By serving as brokers between those two worlds, Indian women who married French men helped connect the Great Lakes to a larger, expanding transatlantic economy while securing the survival of their own native culture. As such, Sleeper-Smith points out, their experiences illuminate those of other traditional cultures forced to adapt to market-motivated Europeans."--pub. website.".
• catalog contributor b12176870.
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description ""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.".
• catalog description "Fish to furs: the fur trade in Illinois country -- Marie Rouensa and the Jesuits: conversion, gender, and power -- Marie Madeleine Réaume L'archêveque Chevalier and the St. Joseph River Potawatomi -- British governance in the western Great Lakes -- Agriculture, warfare, and neutrality -- Being Indian and becoming Catholic -- Hiding in plain view: persistence on the Indiana frontier -- Emigrants and Indians: Michigan's mythical frontier.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-221) and index.".
• catalog description "Indian Women and French Men depicts the encounter of Old World and New as an extended process of indigenous adaptation and change rather than one of conflict and inevitable demise. By serving as brokers between those two worlds, Indian women who married French men helped connect the Great Lakes to a larger, expanding transatlantic economy while securing the survival of their own native culture. As such, Sleeper-Smith points out, their experiences illuminate those of other traditional cultures forced to adapt to market-motivated Europeans."--pub. website.".
• catalog extent "xv, 234 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Indian women and French men.".
• catalog identifier "1558493085 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "1558493107 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Indian women and French men.".
• catalog isPartOf "Native Americans of the Northeast".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press,".
• catalog relation "Indian women and French men.".
• catalog spatial "Northwest, Old".
• catalog spatial "Northwest, Old.".
• catalog subject "977/.01/082 21".
• catalog subject "E78.N76 S54 2001".
• catalog subject "Fur trade Northwest, Old History.".
• catalog subject "Indian women Northwest, Old History.".
• catalog subject "Indians of North America Commerce Northwest, Old.".
• catalog subject "Indians of North America First contact with Europeans Northwest, Old.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Fish to furs: the fur trade in Illinois country -- Marie Rouensa and the Jesuits: conversion, gender, and power -- Marie Madeleine Réaume L'archêveque Chevalier and the St. Joseph River Potawatomi -- British governance in the western Great Lakes -- Agriculture, warfare, and neutrality -- Being Indian and becoming Catholic -- Hiding in plain view: persistence on the Indiana frontier -- Emigrants and Indians: Michigan's mythical frontier.".
• catalog title "Indian women and French men : rethinking cultural encounter in the Western Great Lakes / Susan Sleeper-Smith.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".