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FUR TRADE

Native American Bibliography

 

Periodicals

"Fur Trade on the Upper Lakes."Wisconsin Historical Documents 19 (1910): 234-372.
Documents from the 1778 to 1815 period.

Grignon, Augustin. "Seventy-two Years' Recollections of Wisconsin."Wisconsin Historical Collections 3(1857): 197-295.
An oral history from Grignon who was a trader in the Old Northwest and personally acquainted with much of the early history of the area and many of the Indian leaders.

Humins, John H. "Furs, Astor and Indians: The American Fur Company in the Old Northwest Territory."Michigan History 69 (March/April 1985): 24-31.
Investigation of how John Jacob Astor came to dominate the early nineteenth century United States fur trade.

James, J. A. "Indian Trading House or Factory System."National Magazine 16 (May 1892): 32-37.
James explains how this system evolved.

McDowell, John E. "Madame La Framboise."Michigan History 56 (Winter 1972): 271-286.
Madame La Framboise was a Native American fur trader.

McDowell, John E. "Therese Schindler of Mackinac: Upward Mobility in the Great Lakes Fur Trade."Wisconsin Magazine of History 61 (Winter 1977-1978): 125-143.
Schinder was a fur trader, the daughter of a fur trader and an Ottawa woman.

Magnaghi, Russell M. "Michigan's Indian Factory at Detroit, 1802-1805."Inland Seas 38 (Fall 1982): 171-178.
In an attempt to develop and maintain harmonious relations with the Indians Congress passed laws which created Government-sponsored trading posts; known as the Indian Factory System. This article deals with the post at Detroit.

Magnaghi, Russell M. "Michigan's Indian Factory at Mackinac, 1808-1812."Inland Seas 39 (Spring 1983): 22-30.
The history of the Detroit and Mackinac factories best illustrates the basic flaw of the factory system. Both factories tended to direct their trade toward local merchants.

Magnaghi, Russell M. "The Sandusky Indian Factory, 1806-1812."Inland Seas 39 (Fall 1983): 174-179+.
This article presents a history of the Sandusky Indian Factory and an evaluation of the total system in the Great Lakes area.

Moore, Vivian Lyon. "A Pochontas of Michigan."Michigan History 15 (Winter 1931): 71-79.
Madame La Fromboise, fur trader.

Neill, Edward D. "History of the Ojibways, and Their Connection with Fur Traders, Based upon Official and Other Records."Minnesota Historical Society Records 5 (1885): 395-510.
Official records edited by Neill.

Parker, Samuel J. "American History as Affected by the Hudson Bay Company Canoe Paths."Magazine of Western History 9 (December 1888): 206-212.
The Indian canoe paths led from the Great Lakes to the Pacific.

Peters, Bernard C. "John Johnston's 1822 Description of the Lake Superior Chippewa."Michigan Historical Review 20 (Fall 1994): 24-46.
Johnston was a fur trader at Sault Ste. Marie. His description of the Chippewa clearly illustrates what happened when two cultures collided.

Porter, Frances. "The Fur Trade: First Industry of the Great Lakes Region."Harlow's Wooden Man 23 (Winter 1987): 3-8.
The political, commercial, and social aspects of the fur trade directly affected the development of the Great Lakes region and its first inhabitants.

Stevens, Paul L. "Wabasha Visits Governor Carleton, 1776: New Light on a Legendary Episode of Dakota-British Diplomacy on the Great Lakes Frontier."Michigan Historical Review 16 (Spring 1990): 21-48.
Wabasha (Red Leaf) worked to establish close commercial ties with the British at Michilimackinac and Montreal.

Trask, Kerry A. "Settlement in a Half-Savage Land: Life and Loss in the Metis Community of La Boye."Michigan Historical Review 15 (Spring 1989): 1-27.
The Metis trading town of La Baye on the south shore of Green Bay was the result of the intermarriages of European men and Indian women who depended on the Great Lakes fur trade for their livelihoods.

White, Bruce M. "'Give us a little milk': The Social and Cultural Meanings of Gift Giving in the Lake Superior Fur Trade."Minnesota History 48 (Summer 1982): 60-71.
On the simplest level the Ojibway, like many other cultural groups, believed that tangible objects could be used to signify feelings.

Wright, Gary A. "Some Aspects of Early and Mid-Seventeenth Century Exchange Networks in the Western Great Lakes."Michigan Archaeologist 13 (December 1967): 181-197.
Wright discusses trade in the western Great Lakes in this period.